"Offshoring costing jobs in Canada"
An estimated 395,000 Canadian jobs, including 91,000 in Quebec - double the population of Drummondville - could be lost to developing countries during the next four years, a pair of Université de Montreal researchers predict. Political science professor Pierre Martin says the process known as offshoring, where companies transfer some of their operations overseas to reduce production costs, would be responsible for that number of job losses by the end of the decade. He cautioned offshoring isn't to be confused with outsourcing or contracting out. Offshoring is substituting foreign for domestic labour, and outsourcing is delegating non-core operations or jobs from internal production to an external subcontractor. "This new phase of globalization is threatening workers who used to be protected," noted Martin, who is also director of the university's Chair in American Political and Economic Studies. (M. King MtlGaz B4)
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