In 2007, when Microsoft announced it was opening a software development center in Vancouver, the American tech giant explained it was making the move because of hassles getting H-1B visas for highly skilled employees from overseas, given the U.S. government’s recent reduction in national quotas on the hard-to-get work permits. Canada had no such caps.The software maker, a longtime proponent of making more visas available for skilled foreigners because of a talent shortage stateside, said at the time that th ...