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From: kmgopinathan@violet.waterloo.edu (Krishna Gopinathan)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,can.jobs,ont.jobs
Subject: Software Industry in Canada -- general remarks and questions
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Date: 25 Feb 88 23:08:41 GMT
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With regard to the current discussion in ont.jobs about job hunting in
Canada (started by a software engineer from the US moving to Canada),
I would like to pose some questions (ok, I agree this should go in the
yet-to-be-created comp.industry for those of you who object to reading
this in comp.misc)

I was under the impression that *very* little software development goes
on in Canada ( :^) Canada exports lumber and imports high-tech. :-) ) though
I would agree that much of what does go on occurs in Toronto.  What are
the advantages of developing software in Canada over the US, and when did
the software industry in Canada attain any significant proportions?  Would
you say that today it has any significant impact on the Canadian economy?
Does the software industry in Canada consist more of multinationals (guess
who??) or Canadian-owned companies?

I would appreciate hearing from you -- opinions as well as facts welcome.

-- Krishna