Here is the double whammy.
Internally within this organization havoc ensued as you can well imagine. The Director of Sales emailed his boss who then forwarded that email to the CFO, CEO, and COO with a cc to the head of HR in the parent company. along with the COO Needless to say the email trail was significant and ridiculous at the same time. HR sent a note back through the C level team to let the Canadian team know there is no active recruiting going on in Canada or the U.S. The HR leader said he is training a new recruiting team and they were doing mock interviews to build a future database in the region and internationally.