Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S. (opens in new tab)

>ROGER: Okay, how does this compare to the ’90s when we saw a brain drain then? Is it larger? Different sectors?

>FRANCIS: No, I think, Roger, you pointed to it correctly. This is not an issue that is brand new for Canada.

oh, okay then. so, the same thing is happening as has always happened. the only interesting thing about this article is trying to determine if it's motivated by the opposition party trying to score some points (like it usually is) or by the US trying to share a positive in response to all the "canadian tourism numbers are down" stories going around lately.

It's the pay, it's always the pay. If our salaries were closer to the U.S. this wouldn't be happening.

Is this new? I thought this had been the case for decades.

Good thing there's an endless stream of Indians! Even if property values go up by $1 it's a WIN for me, and there is no brain drain in Canada.

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Not really new, been going on for decades. With recent political changes I would have assumed it might have been getting better actually. I'm guilty, Canadian living in the SF Bay area.

ELI5 - Canadians can just cross the border and get a job in the USA? No need for work visa? Is that by virtue of being Canadian citizens? What are the legals?

I'm sorry but is this an article from the late 1990s?

I'm also from Canada and I know tons of Canadians that have come here since the 90s. I even known immigrants to Canada from other countries (mainly China and India) that came to the US via Canada, using the TN1 or H1B visas after getting their Canadian citizenships.

The biggest problem Canada has is that any moderately successful tech worker is going to be dead-set on trying to get into the US because the Canadian tech scene can't compare based on base pay, annual bonus, starting equity or refreshers, etc. I make more money than all my friends combined. One of my friends is a teacher in Toronto and my annual bonus is more than his entire yearly salary.

I'm sure a lot of Canadian tech workers would repatriate and foreign workers would immigrate to Canada if they could lower taxes across the board and make life easier for tech companies and workers. There's literally trillions of dollars in tech ideas that could have been created in Canada but all of the founders left for the US.

that's what happens when your only industries are cooking oil, actual oil, and real estate