Overwhelming Majority and Montreal

immigrants: The Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal commissioned the report that looked into the workplace and immigrants at 686 companies in the region, according to CTV. The majority of those companies had no immigrant executives, and that more than one third had no immigrant employees at all. Businesses in Montreal say the largest obstacle facing immigrants is a limited command of the French language. The study found that the overwhelming majority of companies in Montreal hired immigrants, but once off the island the number of immigrant employees dropped, to 45% in the Monteregie, and down to 27% north of Montreal. Right now executives only account for 14% of executives in private business according to the survey by SOM and Dun & Broadstreet. It found that even though Montreal was only behind Toronto and Vancouver as a destination for immigrants, it placed 15th among large and medium-sized cities in the U.S. and Canada when it came time for immigrants to find work. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.