The IT Factor, Part 2: Will Ottawa have more tech jobs than it can fill?

In Ottawa’s tech sector, there are more jobs than people to fill them.
In the Kanata North business park alone — once referred to as Silicon Valley North, at the height of the dot-com boom — there are today 3,000 unfilled positions. “Unemployment in tech right now is almost zero,” says Jenna Sudds, the outgoing executive director of the Kanata North Business Association.
Mayor Jim Watson, who frequently boasts this region is home to the most highly educated workforc