29-01-2017 20:53 via news.yahoo.com

Canadian tech companies ask Ottawa to issue visas after U.S. ban

By Alastair Sharp TORONTO (Reuters) - More than 200 Canadian technology company founders, executives and investors called on Sunday for Ottawa to immediately give temporary residency to those displaced by a U.S. order banning the entry of people from seven Muslim-majority countries. In an open letter, they said U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order, which temporarily bars travelers from Syria and six other countries while putting a four-month hold on allowing refugees into the United Sta
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