Immigration: Computer Programmers

Territorial Governments Dept: Still, they come. Thousands of young French men and women, many of whom are bilingual and have multiple university degrees, line up at a three-day jobs fair here this week looking for work as engineers and computer programmers, hamburger-flippers and ski instructors, according to Montreal Gazette. What are they thinking? A slide show at the jobs fair, hosted by the Canadian Embassy in conjunction with representatives from provincial and territorial governments, shows off Canada's economic prowess along with every cliche imaginable about our natural treasures -bears and moose, salmon and maple syrup, outdoor skating and northern lights and they're warned about Canada's weather, our sometimes annoying hyper-friendliness, our harsh intolerance for smoking and sexism, and our tendency to wolf down meals and shun that cherished French ritual -the hours-long dinner party accompanied by robust red wines, plates featuring the freshest of ingredients, and jousting intellectual discussions. Only one in four of the 13,000 who applied to attend this year's annual event, the seventh in a row, actually got an invite. As reported in the news.
@t economic prowess, treasures bears