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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 1:43 pm
Manufacturing is the cheap outsourced labour. The real IT jobs are high-skill, high-education jobs in software development, computer engineering and machine learning, etc. and those aren't easily outsourced.
Apple manufactures their products overseas but directly employs 50,000 Americans and indirectly employees another 50,000 through suppliers and vendors.
Similar story for Google and others that are the innovative disruptors that Canadian businesses are too afraid to become.