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Noah Smith and Bloomberg

Bloomberg: The company was forced to beat a hasty retreat following an outpouring of criticism, according to Globe and Mail. This is a catch-all ASF view; only displays when an unsupported article type is put in an ASF drop zone Around the same time, amid all the commentary about where America is headed, blogger and finance professor Noah Smith turned his eyes north and gave Canada a mighty shout-out in a column for Bloomberg titled Canada, Tomorrow Superpower. There was an outpouring of criticism a few weeks back when Disney, that most iconic of American companies, moved to replace a number of its homegrown techies with low-cost temporary foreign workers. Prof. But in his haste to explain what right about our policies, he skipped over the part of the story where we’ve begun to ape something that wrong about the American way: a growing reliance by business on temporary guest workers. Smith rightly pointed out that immigration policy is one of the fundamental Canadian strengths that bode well for our future. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.