影响的不止是北电这一家公司，而是渥太华高科技的整个生态环境，十年了，还没有缓过劲来，村里如今稍微有点规模的公司没有一个姓加的。从业人员也远远低于当年的顶盛时期。
Go back to 2007, the last full year before Nortel Networks — once our largest private-sector employer — began its descent into oblivion. High-tech firms in the region that year employed an estimated 61,000 directly, representing nearly 10 per cent of the local workforce. That was the highest such ratio in the country by a fair margin.
When Nortel slipped into bankruptcy in 2009, the impact was huge. The region’s high-tech workforce dipped to an annual low of 40,000 before recovering to about 46,000 — a level that has been static for the past five years.
Given the massive shock of Nortel’s implosion, that’s actually not a bad outcome. But in the meantime, the rest of the country’s tech industry has caught up to or surpassed the capital region.
Consider that while Ottawa-Gatineau shed more than 15,000 tech jobs between 2007 and 2020 (annual averages), Toronto added 94,000 and Montreal and Vancouver bulked up by 25,000 each.
Toronto is now the country’s most tech intensive city. Last year 7.6 per cent of its workforce was employed directly by high-tech firms, up from 5.3 per cent in 2007. The capital region last year was number two at 6.3 per cent, but only just. The comparable ratio for Montreal and Kitchener-Waterloo was 6.2 per cent. For Vancouver, it was 5.9 per cent.
Ottawa-Gatineau was the only large urban area in Canada to record a drop in tech employment last year.
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是的。北电如同矗立在渥太华高科技的参天大树，保护着众多如同小草的初创企业。这颗大树一倒，严重影响了渥太华高科技的整个生态环境。迄今为止，因北电倒闭丢失的21，000高科技职位经历了10年才恢复了6，000高科技职位，还损失了15,000高科技职位。
渥太华曾经加拿大高科技就业人口比例高达10%，号称北方硅谷， 遥遥领先于其他城市，去年其他城市高科技职位增加，只有渥太华高科技职位减少。目前渥太华高科技就业人口比例6.3%，非常勉强排第二，需要各级政府对高科技企业的扶持，否则随时会跌至第五。近几年多伦多已经取代渥太华，成为北方硅谷。
