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Bull Baird

Dept: Bull Baird in a diplomatic china shop, according to Globe and Mail. This week, the nation seemed to erupt in outrage at the discovery of these non-permanent people among us. The trigger was a small group brought from India by the Royal Bank of Canada for a few months to help outsource its office services. The responses ranged from xenophobia they re giving Canadian jobs to foreigners! to wage fear they re driving down our pay rate! and Video: When outsourcing goes wrong: Man fired after hiring a Chinese firm to do his work for The Editorial cartoon This system of temporary status melding into permanence has worked very well as a means to create new Canadians. But it has recently fallen apart: The temporary, now here in greater numbers than ever, are finding themselves unable to become permanent. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.