While the much-needed US immigration reform bill remains stuck in Congress, Canada is not waiting — it has launched a pilot programme to attract global entrepreneurs by offering them permanent visas and a path to citizenship.
And judging from what Canada’s new Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Chris Alexander told me in an interview, his country’s programme to give out 2,750 visas to young foreign entrepreneurs may soon be scaled up. “If we have success in attracting the kind of people we want to attract, I am confident that the figure will grow,” he says.
Canada is thus joining Australia, Britain, Chile, Brazil and other countries that are hoping to
