Canadian e-commerce is lagging and Google plans to hire more staff to strengthen its business brand in this country, says the new head of Google Canada. "The message is very clear: invest for growth in Canada," Chris O’Neill said in a phone interview from Mountain View, Calif. Google already has 150 employees in Canada at offices in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and the Kitchener-Waterloo region of Ontario. Mr. O’Neill isn’t sure yet how many new employees the company will hire but they could be in engineering, sales, marketing and policy.
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