Business attraction efforts have always pitted state against state, province against province, in the competition to entice employers and employment potential. What is new, however, is the direct, open and negative content of some recent ads and promotional campaigns.
Click here for an enlightening if disturbing report from the BBC on the "interstate rivalry."
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October 19, 2009
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