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How Canada poached 10,000 tech workers from the U.S. — in just 48 hours
(www.thestar.com)
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Giving more options to H1B visa tech workers is great! In order for Canada to compete for all tech talent in the US though (including US citizens), Canadian tech companies will need to have much better salaries.
We spend billions subsidizing oil and gas, which are industries with dimming importance in the future. Meanwhile, we have some of the best artificial intelligence, computer science, cognitive science university programs in the world, and we send all of our graduates to the US.
We should nurture a tech sector in Canada, not just focus solely on natural resources.
I agree and want to add that Canada didn't have the same kind of AI Winter that the US and other places experienced. There's at least some finding, though as you said not nearly enough...