Ottawa is Silicon Valley North and that’s where the best prospects for IT jobs are. It depends, though, on what you do. In the telecom area, for example, Nortel just announced the layoff of 3000 people. Alcatel also laid off a bunch so the prospects for telecom are not very good now.

If you are in the business support domain, on the other hand, jobs seem to be available.

But my understanding is that Montreal has a lot of IT work. Why would you want to move?