The federal government is looking to poach talent from abroad through three new initiatives announced at a technology conference on Tuesday.
Immigration Minister Sean Fraser announced what he called a “digital nomad strategy” that will allow workers with a foreign employer to stay and work in Canada for up to six months. If they get a job offer while in the country, he said, they can remain in Canada even longer.
He said those workers will “spend money in communities in this country.”
The strategy is similar to a temporary visa policy in place in Mexico. That policy has attracted large numbers of American workers
