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Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S.

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Re: Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S.

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Post by throwaway-blaze »

cogogo wrote: post #27
blindriver wrote: post #3

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-se…

Something feels deeply wrong about comparing your tech income to a teacher’s. Especially outside the context of an argument like “teachers should be paid more.”

"teachers should be paid more" isn't an argument, it's a statement. But perhaps I've made your point for you.

Re: Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S.

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Post by QGQBGdeZREunxLe »

jandrewrogers wrote: post #18
bfkwlfkjf wrote: post #6

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?

TN1 visa allows Canadians to work in the US indefinitely in most professional-type roles e.g. teacher, engineer, accountant, etc. It doesn’t require much more than a job offer to get the visa. It is a non-immigration visa so it isn’t a path to citizenship, just an American job. Many Canadians take advantage of this.

There was a pathway to citizenship until last week.

Re: Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S.

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Post by throwaway-blaze »

Majromax wrote: post #20
blindriver wrote: post #3

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-se…

> 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 I'm not sure that Canadian taxes compare that unfavourably to combined California plus federal taxation. A deeper, more structural limitation appears to be the venture capital environment, namely that Canada doesn't have…

You think tax incentives are what makes VC work in California but not other places in the US let alone Canada?

It's concentration of nodes in the graph that makes SV unlike any other place on earth.

Other places that want to be SV need to solve the cold-start problem to build up their local node set, not emulate what SV is like today.

Re: Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S.

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Post by QGQBGdeZREunxLe »

rjrjrjrj wrote: post #23
bfkwlfkjf wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Science degree from a US university you mean? I'm not trolling, genuine question.

Canadian university degree is fine. Look up TN 1 visa if you want more details.

Any university degree is fine but if it's not from a NAFTA country it needs a Foreign Equivalency Certification.

Re: Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S.

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Post by bfkwlfkjf »

QGQBGdeZREunxLe wrote: post #35
rjrjrjrj wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Canadian university degree is fine. Look up TN 1 visa if you want more details.

Any university degree is fine but if it's not from a NAFTA country it needs a Foreign Equivalency Certification.

But from non-nafta it's not TN, right? What's the approach there? Skilled something?

Re: Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S.

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Post by __s »

s0rce wrote: post #29

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.

Back in 2019 Microsoft sent job offer, 145k usd/yr base moving to SF. Couldn't get visa (no degree). New offer: 95k cad/yr in Vancouver

I've done well since then, but being in Canada I'm always "out of band". Implicit implication that I should move south where lower level positions already match Canadian bands

Re: Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S.

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Post by nxm »

throwaway-blaze wrote: post #33
Majromax wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 I'm not sure that Canadian taxes compare that unfavourably to combined California plus federal taxation. A deeper, more structural limitation appears to be the venture capital environment, namely that Canada doesn't have…

You think tax incentives are what makes VC work in California but not other places in the US let alone Canada? It's concentration of nodes in the graph that makes SV unlike any other place on earth. Other places that want to be SV need to solve the cold-start problem to build up their local node set, not emulate what SV is like today.

It’s actually policy that incentives risk taking where 1 in 50 bets will succeed

Re: Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S.

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Post by QGQBGdeZREunxLe »

bfkwlfkjf wrote: post #36
QGQBGdeZREunxLe wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any university degree is fine but if it's not from a NAFTA country it needs a Foreign Equivalency Certification.

But from non-nafta it's not TN, right? What's the approach there? Skilled something?

No you can get a TN with it. I used my British degree.

Edit: You still need to be a Mexican or Canadian citizen.

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