OTTAWA — In May 2020, two months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, executives from Shopify approached federal officials with an idea: if the government covered their salaries, the company would hire and train up to 1,000 young people to help the country’s small businesses survive lockdowns by selling online, using Shopify’s platform.
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