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Canada Facing 'Brain Drain' As Young Tech Talent Leaves For Silicon Valley (theglobeandmail.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Globe and Mail: Canada's best and brightest computer engineering graduates are leaving for jobs in Silicon Valley at alarmingly high rates, fueling a worse "brain drain" than the mass exodus by Canadian doctors two decades ago, according to a new study. The study, led by Zachary Spicer, a senior associate with the Munk School of Global Affairs' Innovation Policy Lab at University of Toronto, found one-in-four recent science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) graduates from three of the country's top universities -- University of Waterloo, University of British Columbia and U of T -- were working outside Canada. The numbers were higher for graduates of computer engineering and computer science (30 percent), engineering science (27 percent) and software engineering, where two out three graduates were working outside Canada, mostly in the United States. Nearly 44 percent of those working abroad were employed as software engineers, with Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon listed as top employers.
If were young again, I would leave Montreal as if it were a medieval plague city.
Sky high taxes, dirty, gray downtown, corruption everywhere, low wages, endless regulations, terrible weather.
Young people! You are free! Enjoy what you can.
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This is unlikely, since we all know from comments on Slashdot that the US is a third world hellhole no one would want to even visit, much less live in. Surely they meant they fled to Europe, which as we all know is a welcoming, enlightened place for humans to live in peace and harmony.
MAGA
Eh?
Who writes these summaries? An exodus implies that there is a mass. It's like white mustang, ATM machine, LCD display, and free gift.
Soon those individuals will experience a quality of life drain as they move into trailers they will hardly go back to with all the hours they'll work.
Not for me.
Two weeks ago, we learned that Engineers Are Leaving America For Canada.
Do the stories cancel out ?
Will we get a follow-up story about (for example) how young Canadians come to the Silicon Valley to get credentials, then leave because of the high cost of living / insecurity over employee buses attacks ?
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of killer sig, which this margin is too narrow to contain.
AFAICT, top grads from top schools move to Silicon Valley. Period. We only have a couple of the top schools in the bay area so that implies that the rest of them are coming from top schools outside the bay area. We have top people from Waterloo, Georgia Tech, IIT, basically everywhere. It's not even complicated, the top jobs are mostly here, most people don't want to play second fiddle in a securities trading shop or insurance company when they can be top dogs in a software firm. Silicon Valley's position as the dominant region is gradually changing over time, but the jobs aren't dispersing evenly into the world, there are just other concentrated locales you can also consider these days like Seattle.
I thought the techies were leaving the US for Canada because they couldn't stand Trump?
Just keep up with h1b's and illegals! Of course convincing everyone of a shortage is a good strategy to get more h1b's and illegals.
You forgot that one. Also:
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This is why the trick is to work remotely for a US country, while staying in Canada to enjoy the affordable health care. That way you avoid the low wages too, especially given the cost of living in e.g. BC.
Public Transportation. Clean Water and Air. Free healthcare.
As for the States? 2 hour commutes... one way. Smog days... in summer. Lead in my water. Lax safety regulations. High taxes that pay for nothing but a big 'ole military empire. And education system that's been gutted.
If I had it to do over again I'd moved to Canada in a heartbeat.
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NOPE
Canadian developer here, and I would rather not go to the United States. Much like everyone else here I have heard some extremely disturbing and negative things about the USA. I also was a trucker and drove through the United states as well as visiting. Quite frankly the poverty can be shocking. I went through some town and the grocery store had nothing fresh to eat, it was all just dry stuff in boxes, the fruit area consisted of two box tops with apples or oranges and they both looked rotted. That was the best food I had come across at any grocery store. The people had some pretty severe dental challenges and seemed a little 'methed up'. Racial slurs seemed to be slung around in the background at lineups.
None of that even approaches the infrastructure along with toll roads everywhere (you would think one would negate the other, you would be wrong).
I kept away from drinking the water after hearing about serious problems with heavy metal contamination.
Should I make the journey my expectation is thus: there would be no job at the end of the rainbow, attempting to chase a fruitless dream would leave me pennyless in a place that HATES poor people and has utilized them for mass entertainment sport (bum fights). Along with nearly daily reports of unarmed (poor) people being outright murdered by police with no convictions.
There really isn't anything good about the place. That is not just me talking, much of the international community has begun to avoid the united states and will probably continue to do so, we have just throughout our lives seen it decay so much that even if it magically sprang back to glory it probably would not be enough to offset that ingrained memory of what a hell hole it is.
I and most other developers are doing fine here, I live along a pristine area where eagles follow my bike above on sunny days and I get to see the sunset over the beach. I could not leave a veritable garden of Eden to travel to some polluted backwater police state.
That is not to say the same is not creeping in here, I lived in Ottawa for 17 years and found it to be a jobless shite hole of people talking about hockey and schools pretending Canada does not have a history of racism and even slavery (we do, we've just tried to eliminate it from the books). I do not want to paint us here as being some how better, I cannot stand people who do that and refuse to be so guilty, we have serious unaddressed and hidden problems as well. We just do not have as many.
Without numbers from other non-US countries to compare against, we can't say whether 27% and 30% are actually that bad. I'd like to see comparison numbers for other commonwealth countries (UK, Australia, New Zealand), the U.S., and possibly Mexico since it's close to the US. It's possible Canada's numbers are "normal".
Seriously, lots of engineers and good non-software talent is leaving America and going to Canada. Smart on their part.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
So last week all the tech conferences were moving to Canada: https://news.slashdot.org/stor... Two weeks ago all the Engineers were moving to Canada: https://news.slashdot.org/stor... And this week all Canadian tech is moving to Silicon Valley.
As soon as they want to settle down and raise a family they will flee the extremely overpriced Bay area.
Canada is great if you are a low skilled, under educated worker.
If you can turn a bolt, tighten a screw, slap on some paint, or do anything in the auto industry, we will go to great lengths to save your job.
If you are highly educated though, good luck, f**k you, go work elsewhere, shut up and pay your obscenely high taxes so we can pay some idiot to tighten a bolt. You do electrical engineering? F**k that, unless you are in the auto industry, or oil industry.
Canada, good to be under educated.
USA: Sucks to be under educated.
There must be a middle ground somewhere.
... and they want their news back.
Old news is so exciting.
Trudeau has made Canada into both the baby Wehrmacht and the laughing stock of the world. Innovation isn't possible under socialism/communism as a form of governance and if it does occur, it's only under threat of duress or worse. Too bad, though, that in America these legal visa holders will have to compete with illegal immigrants that overstayed and had children just like Americans have to.
Having a common border does demonstrate something lacking between the US and China. The free movement of labor.*
*Ironically so does the Mexican border.
no worries, the week before, all canadian doctors were leaving canada for the us, make greed great again.
Last month slashdot 'reported' the opposite, that the brain drain was occurring in reverse of this one. People, if you believe 1/10th of what these shitheads display as news you aren't worth a goose's dropping.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/silicon-valleys-trump-brain-drain-continues
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https://venturebeat.com/2017/09/20/the-most-attractive-place-for-tech-outside-of-silicon-valley-is-canada/
Liberals, Fun to laugh at when they are in another country. Sad to have them here.
Jesus, this has been happening for DECADES. Everyone knows this Captain Obvious.
15 years ago a buddy told me "you have nothing lost here in Germany, you should go check out Silicon Valley". For just about 2 decades I've dealt with plain and utter idiiots when it comes to IT and the Web and professional work in those fields and it's slowly dawning on me: The places where I can meet people who understand me are very rare and one of those places where I would be in my waters professionally is Silicon Valley and the bay area.
At a certain point it becomes more and more difficult to even move on. I've still go some much to learn and still haven't found a single web agency that has a professional pipeline. For my recent job I'm biulding one now and it's going better than ever, but I still get the feeling that this can't be all.
The Valley is to IT what Paris is to fashion and Buenos Aires to Tango: other places simply can't compare because they are so far ahead. So, yeah, I get it. SF and the valley is where it's at.
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Earlier this year I discovered I only knew one other Canadian born and Canadian university educated engineer still working as an engineer in Canada. Excluding that one person all my class mates are either in the USA, immigrated to Canada as kids or are no longer doing engineering. All but one of my coworkers at my last 4 jobs is foreign born. When I worked in the Bay area I had lots of Canadian born co-workers and friends. I've been asked at engineering pickup soccer games in Ottawa, Canada where my accent is from.
I don't even work for any Canadian companies, I do contract work for American companies. The pay isn't even close. I probably get 70% more pay working remote for an American company than I would for a local one.
This just means that the Silicon Valley computer industry is larger than any Canadian counterparts. People go where there are the most jobs in their field. Tech companies in particular locate jobs where qualified people are looking.
That creates a Catch-22, and there's something to be said for a contrarian strategy where you locate jobs where the cost of living means people can live better on lower salaries. But it doesn't entirely negate the networking effect advantages of being the biggest technology center.
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Slashdot had an article here the other month about how Canada was this bright shining star away from America's horrible racism.
Guess that's not true like alot of other news.
Tech workers are fleeing the United States to work on Canada:
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
http://www.businessinsider.com...
http://www.digitaljournal.com/...
https://www.axios.com/exodus-u...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Come on news people, make up your minds.
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Socialized education in Canada pushed me towards work in the trades.
By the time I graduated - there was no work in the trades, as they suggested the future would hold.
Even then, my degree was worth toilet paper in the province I got it in.
Out of school I was offered three or four 30k/yr jobs. With a bachelor's degree.
Anything that paid more had incredible competition, where 8-10 guys would interview for one spot.
Living in the Toronto area, you'll spend 50%+ of your income in housing.
The other half gets taken in taxes.
There's little/no work outside that sphere for technically-based people.
Left for the US; Made three times what I made in Canada, in a more rural (beautiful) area, doing tech work, while paying 25% less tax, and paying 10-30% less generally for the cost of living in goods/groceries/etc.
Healthcare? My employer pays for it. It's better service than I had while under the Ontario system.
Trump? My life is no different than it was under Obama, except I pay even less tax now, aside from people squawking about the end of times.
If you're educated, you'll likely get pulled into something like Silicon valley then get stuck there due to cost of living keeping your broke.
If you're intelligent, you'll make the same money, if not more, and have a far better life in just about any other state that's not along the coasts.
"Engineers Are Leaving America For Canada" https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
When you institute redistribution in a society, the people who are redistributed to like it, and the people who are redistributed from leave.
So, the problem with socialism is not that you run out of other people's money, it's that you run out of highly productive people whose money you can take.
Canada has better overall health outcomes than the US. That's just a fact. Also, studies show the US would save $17 Trillion (with a 'T') dollars switching to single payer.
Opponents of single payer like to point out that Canadians come here for heart surgery, ignoring that it's because we have more heart surgeons. Meanwhile 45,000 Americans die every year from completely preventable diseases. I saw a heart doc here for some palpatations. I have some of the best healthcare in the country and he told me to eat better and excersise more. Cost me $800 USD.
America's healthcare system is awful. You have no idea how good you've got it.
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says Average wait times for surgery in Canada is around 9 weeks. e..g 2 1/4 months. Pretty bad. Same search for US says 12 weeks, e.g. 3 months. Worse.
Facts are overwhelmingly on the side of single payer healthcare. And this is not at all surprising. When in your life has a middle man been a good thing? Especially a middle man who is actively trying to keep you from using the service you paid for? You do understand that insurance companies make money when they collect premiums and don't pay claims?
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Just a few weeks ago there was an article that Canada was luring educational and tech talent from America. Which is it?
I live in Vancouver. I'd totally pack up and head to the states if I wasn't sharing custody of my kids, who go to school here. It's an instant 40% raise as soon as you cross the border, especially when you consider the USD/CAD spread. Salaries in Vancouver are terrible even before you start considering the cost of housing, and the government markets us as a place to get world-class talent at cut-rate prices, so that's unlikely to change.
I went from California to Canada. I lived in British Columbia and in Quebec and I really really deeply hated both; it's cold, rainy, boring as hell, and I felt like I had stepped 20 years backward when it came to infrastructure and services. I know that Canadians are raised to believe Canada is the promised land, but the only reasons to like the place is if you love nature (which is amazing there), or you're from there and haven't seen much elsewhere. As someone that spent half his life in North America and half in Europe, I have to say that the only reason i would ever go back there is if we have a world shortage of fresh water and I would need to move there to survive.
The article and study fail to highlight the share of graduates that are Canadian citizens in the first place.
Lots of people from the USA and all around the world come here to study in our universities to enjoy high quality education at relatively low cost. These people naturaly tend to go back to their countries, and many foreigners that are not Canadians/Americans will migrate to the states, Canada is just a bridge to them.
At my university approximately half the students in engineering were Americans.
The important point of this study imo is that these graduates either dont apply for Canadian citizenship or get refused.
I'm a US citizen that moved to Toronto because I loved the city. What I found is that the tech jobs just don't pay there, while the city is rapidly increasing in price. My understanding is Vancouver isn't much different. I took a pay cut to move there, and ultimately left for a Seattle-based job. After the exchange rate, my salary in Seattle is double that of Toronto - while the cost of living isn't that much more. I talked to many tech people in Toronto, and never found someone who was making 6 figures Canadian even.
I would love to move back to Toronto, but the low salaries, high cost of living, and poor benefits (most companies only wanted to offer 2 weeks of vacation time, and my company didn't even offer retirement plans) made it a poor financial decision for me. If Canada wants to stop the brain drain, they need to fix the salary problem.
Late last year a guy named Matthew Harris posted some salary data on Quora comparing the most expensive cities to hire a Python developer in the US and Canada. It costs more to hire a python dev in Madison WI (#5 on the U.S. list) than it does in Ottawa (#1 on the Canadian list) by a wide margin ($95k vs $78.5k). So it seems like the message to Canada is, "Pay up or shut up". In the meantime, I have some great colleagues from up North that I get to work with. https://www.quora.com/How-diff...
there's so much more to life than an excessive salary. But go ahead, keep your childish materialistic fantasies. Hopefully some more mature and responsible people will be able to fix all the destruction the greedy, irresponsible and selfish people have caused.
90% of STEM students at those universities were foreign-born non-citizens. We have a problem with our universities selling out like whores to foreign money and no longer educating our own citizens.
More shitty brown people with no hygiene, ethics, and zero values consistent with our laws and culture.
Smelly rapists. Thats what they are. But they vote Liberal so our PM loves them!
I looked several times into moving to the US but it never made sense.
Reasons I never moved from Canada:
1) I wanted kids, and didn't want to pay for some stranger to bring them to swimming classes, music classes. Having my parents do it saved me thousands, and the kids got to know their grandparents.
2) I like nature, prefer at least an acre of land. Definitely don't want to live in some concrete land where you can touch your house and the next one at the same time. I like a private lot.
3) I don't like spending time in a car
4) Cheap mortgage
5) We still have communities here. Our kids played on the front street with other kids in the neighborhood, while the neighbors chatted. IN the US it seems like everyone just looks out for themselves.
6) Peace of mind for healthcare. I have to dick around with insurance companies for dental and I hate it. Can't imagine fighting for health. We ended up having a lot of health issues in my family and I would have hit a lifetime cap a long, long time ago. I would have been bankrupt right now.
I always put a cost to myself and my family on those things and no matter what job offer came up, it just wouldn't cover it.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
Your ignorant "analysis" of Gladue reports is enough to mark you as an utter moran. Go hang you racist cunt.
Nigga. 6% aint shit.
Quebec has universal daycare. No one else in the country has that.. do the math retard.
Yes, but robbing Peter to pay Peter comes a lot closer, both to the truth, and to sustainability.
I'm going to read that / as a jaunty cigar.
Have you ever hard that possession is nine-tenths of the law?
There's a huge government apparatus to (generously) define the boundaries of intellectual property, so that Peter can litigate in public courts (well below the net cost of the institution) to Peter's great advantage.
Without the fiat power of government, there would be no patent and copyright systems. There would just be trade secrets. Reverse engineering would be the new Right to Bare ARMs. Defamation? Open season, subject only to your powers of economic retaliation. (Just a heads up on that one: the cost of defending turf in the drug trade is very high, and few in the business find themselves on the black side of the ledger for very long—long enough to bling trance some lusty chicks as a young adult male, before they send you off for a couple of years of daily practice in keeping a wet bar of soap on the up and up; this institution is also a great public expense, benefiting the most those who already have the most).
Peter doesn't really like to talk about how 70% of the defense of property is socialism. Not his favourite talking point, by far.
So a lot of what Peter sees as excess taxation to Paul's benefit is the chunk the government takes from Peter to fund the giant public industry of keeping Paul from aggressively spilling out of the Paul bucket.
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Here's another thing. Behind every Peter, there's usually a couple of grand pappy Pauls, who managed to scrounge their way out of the Paul bucket, and not by means that the prevailing Peter ruling class wasn't trying to extirpate by stuffing their fat fingers into every feasible escape option.
Of course, Paul can invent a better mouse trap. There are at least 200 million Pauls (and Paulettes) in American right now.
It would only take circa forty million SUCCESSFUL mouse trap innovations per year, to reliably expand the Peter class to universal suffrage.
The metaphor of the invisible hand is remarkable in having no metabolism. With no metabolism, it never suffers from overwork or fatigue. It never goes "don't fucking bring me one more member of your huddled masses—and I mean it!—I'm totally fucking bagged." So we pretend that a narrow path that works for the special few (driven individuals with broad skills who can maintain a 125+ IQ on an average of five of six hours sleep, long term), that this narrow path can accommodate the entire population, side by side, arm in arm, if only they'd rise up off their lazy asses.
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While I have few socialist sympathies, I certainly think the wealthy and advantaged complain too damn much about an already good thing. Peter/Paul rhetoric makes me want to puke, because every institution in society has differential Peter/Paul dynamics, and not just the tax system.
So what really anchors this Peter/Paul meme in the public discourse, despite its superficial stupidity?
Because there's a severe scarcity of noddables. The tax system is one of the few transfer payments where you get an actual receipt. All of our greedy, self-interested anger over all the ways that our value is transferred to others is focused on that tangible document of distress on tax day. We are, of course, really poor at adding up all the ways that values invisibly comes home to roost in exchange for the taxation exacted. We're neurological wired to always believe that the net transaction is hopelessly rigged.
So the tax thing is one of the few memes where every agrees to nod together: taxation sucks.
That's why the slippery Peter/Paul narrative is anchored, first and foremost, to the mechanism
I've read in recent times tech talent is leaving the US for Canada due to trump's bigotry towards non-white engineers and talent. I certainly trust the non-american news sources than the merkan propaganda outlets.
I like racists. Theyâ(TM)re probably the last honest people in the western world. And theyâ(TM)re certainly the only ones in connection with reality.
Didn't we just have a story a week or two ago about how Canada's attracting tech talent from the USA? Is it really brain drain if they're draining in both directions?
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
So, like always then?
The US has been a net beneficiary of a worldwide brain drain, for a very long time, a century at least. Silicon Valley is just a geographical manifestation of the opportunities the US can offer.
In fact it was news when places like India actually had expatriates moving from Silicon Valley, back to India! Dog Bites Man is not a story, Man Bites Dog is a story.
The current Commander In Chief does seem to want to put a stop to beneficial in-migration for the US though. So much Winning!
That will leave a handful of seats for the hitchhikers they'll pick up on the way out.
So Quebec has universal child care that the rest of the country pays for. Still doesnâ(TM)t explain the high taxes.
Elections in US are indeed a circus with a high entertaining value, so leaving because of Bush or Obama or Trump is very stupid.
However, US got a long term isssue : if gradually stops being a white developed country. So there are chances that down in fifty years many might want to emigrate from US but will they find a place to go?
Development is one thing. No need to bring race into it though.
Japan is the destination then, if white is not the same as developed, or you cannot stand white. (Yes there are poor white countries, mostly Eastern Europe).
People moving for tech jobs are going to be mostly men [citation not needed]. This means that Canada is draining men into the biggest sausage party in the Western Hemisphere. Which means there will be a surplus of women left behind. So, the clever guy who is having some trouble finding himself a girlfriend can just head north and have a darned good chance at picking up a Canadian girlfriend.
Only downside? Nobody's going to believe he has a Canadian girlfriend.
It must be sad to live in such an oppressive country you aren't allowed to use an AM radio and CB at home. Canadians should rise up!
You can listen to an AM radio, but only in the morning.
Cape Breton radio is not that good.
Oh, stop, Shania.
Wtf? Trades are two year programs and you'd be making 40-60k out of school. BC has a hugely retiring trades industry that can take all the grads it can. You're a fucking loser blaming others for your shit life. If you're competent, you don't have a problem in BC. Can't speak for Ontario.
They have to pay for the Language Police with something. It's a very important government service to deny people the right to use english, which the most commonly used Language in Canada and one of our official languages.
some karma... and kinda lukewarm about it.
Didn't slashdot run the exact opposite story within the last two weeks about how all the young tech talent was heading to Canada?
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Your ignorant "analysis" of Gladue reports is enough to mark you as an utter moran. Go hang you racist cunt.
Go tell it to the 3yr old girl who was repeatedly anally raped by her own father, required 24 surgeries and the native offender was given 6mo weekends only, and was released on his own recog before trial. Why don't you go look up the case on Gerald Stanley, who was put on trial for shooting the native. The native who'd had a laundry list of criminal offenses from assault (physical disfigurement of a person w/weapon), multiple instances of robbery(w/weapon) and so on. Oh did I mention he was a great example of gladue? Just like his parents who were involved in the same thing. He got slaps on the wrist until he got shot and killed while trying to rob someone.
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I'm tired of listening to stories about Trump, poor healthcare coverage and most importantly, all those guns. Goodbye, USA. Keep your wretchedly high salaries and keep bitchin'
Canada's best and brightest are going where they are paid the most. This is how capitalism works.
The alternative is to impose an Exit Visa system, that forces all Canadians to register with the federal government before they are allowed to leave the country. That way, Canada can ensure that the best and the brightest stay at home against their will. It worked wonders for East Germany. It's definitely a policy for Soviet Canuckistan to consider too.
Look, Canada might be a great country, but it's teeny tiny compared to the United States of America, which invented the computer, software, networking, and app revolutions. Why on earth would any tech-savvy young adult want to stay in 2nd-tier Canada when they could quite literally walk to the birthplace of innovation?
Canadian zombies!
Wait, what? I thought Slashdot just told me the other day that they were all fleeing to Canada because Trump.
I'm going to disagree partially: heritage and culture have a LOT to do with the success of a nation. Kipling said it best, in "The Sons of Martha"
The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part;
But the Sons of Martha favour their Mother of the careful soul and the troubled heart.
And because she lost her temper once, and because she was rude to the Lord her Guest,
Her Sons must wait upon Mary's Sons, world without end, reprieve, or rest.
It is their care in all the ages to take the buffet and cushion the shock.
It is their care that the gear engages; it is their care that the switches lock.
It is their care that the wheels run truly; it is their care to embark and entrain,
Tally, transport, and deliver duly the Sons of Mary by land and main.
Some cultures tend towards 'sons of Martha', and those are the ones that tend to be successful. The problem is, that for all too many of the cultures immigrating in, that the culture of the "sons of Mary" predominate. And when a nation changes from a, for lack of better term, "Marthite" culture to a "Maryite" culture. . . .things get. . . .interesting. In the Chinese sense. . .
Canada is not experiencing a brain drain to the US but a brain drain FROM the US. And as long as Trump and his policies are in place educated US citizens in the Stem fields will choose to live in Canada rather than stay in the States. So I advise Canada to maintain its immigration policy, you will gain much more than you will lose.
Study uses LinkedIn profiles to make generalizations on the profiles of graduating class. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to know this is an extremely biased way of running a study.
As a Canadian who works in the tech sector... in Vancouver, we have no issues hiring local talent (UBC). Matter of fact - at least 1/3 of applicants for open roles in my company are American. The brain drain is flowing the other way.
We did build a wall. Viserion burnt it down
Raise taxes, indoctrinate people, legislate morality, legislate social justice in all its might, share wealth, support all do-gooder's causes under the sun and create a hellhole where all people are bankrupted, corrupted or fleeing.
Try a little less Communism, get a little less of the bad consequences. Increase Communism slowly, get the bad consequences more slowly. It's unavoidable.
I wonder how that works out the same time every time it is tried. The only way to win is not to play.
It is likely this falls under the realm of politics. In Canada we're not all that far away from a Federal election, and indeed Ontario is only a couple months away now. Papers like these are unfortunately used to wave around to support whatever agenda you're trying to espouse, be it how terrible the current government is and the choices the made, or what your plan is for the future and how you would fix the problem in said paper.
Some of these are more overt than others. Usually coming from a politically biased "think tank" which is funded by like minded politically motivated people/industry. In Canadian politics there is also some severe spending limited as to what you can spend on a campaign and where that money can come from. These "independent" think tanks can be a bit of an end run around some of this by essentially providing "facts" or fodder depending on your political leanings.
This particular one seems a bit more independent and less overt than some, so it takes a bit of digging to take a more critical look. So while this particular instance is associated with the University of Toronto, it as it's name suggests was largely funded by a fellow called Peter Munk, which brings into question how independent it really is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Apparently there were strings attached to the money that was "donated" in that the school should "fit with the political views and sensitivities of Peter Munk".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Which then begs the question about what political views Peter Munk has, and when you look, and see for example that he apparently exceeded donation limits for the Conservative Party of Canada 3 times. So it is safe to say he is pretty right of center politically.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Soooo after all that, I'd say I would be pretty confident given the conclusions of the study that it will be used by Conservative Politicians around election time to point out how un-competitive we are in comparison to the US and that the obvious solution is to lower corporate tax to attract large tech corporations so that we can keep our tech talent from leaving Canada. Likely also suggest lower income tax for wealthy under the same guise and perhaps other "incentives" to attract corporations like cash bonuses, other waived taxes, real estate etc... I'm reminded of Ontario giving an auto maker 300 million to locate a new plant there, to which they did, while closing one of their other ones located there at the same time... Whoops! Here is 300 million to make a new plant for zero net new jobs.
Anyway I find it a bit sad that every time I seemingly come across some new "academic" paper purporting new facts, you need to do a critical analysis of where it came from because half the time it is part of some self serving political agenda.
Recent graduates move to Silicon Valley to get the experience, but once they decide to have a family, they'll move back to Canada, because having a child, raising a child (or more than one), and the associated inevitable costs (medical, daycare) are way more affordable back home. That also includes higher education, btw.
Countries with a reasonably high rate of development (most OECD members) are really not interested in all that racist white trash.