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I often hear this repeated, but I’ve never seen any evidence for this claim. I’m a highly educated immigrant to Canada, and I can’t imagine ever going back to the US. And it’s not like most immigrants can just easily shop around for other countries.
Yes I agree with you. Canadians are quite well educated. The problem becomes the lack of opportunities for all of those people. You end up strong competition for little jobs, which drives the wages down.
Couple that with the very expensive housing market, and you get educated young adults that struggle to settle down.
Across the border in the US, opportunities in the STEM and plenty and wages are much better. US has lots of problems, but attracting talent is not one of them and Canadians talent is super easy to enter the US
Canada doesn’t have a shortage of talent. It has a problem retaining them.
I often hear this repeated, but I’ve never seen any evidence for this claim. I’m a highly educated immigrant to Canada, and I can’t imagine ever going back to the US. And it’s not like most immigrants can just easily shop around for other countries.
A problem retaining them? Really?
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/221130/dq221130a-eng.htm
We’re literally the most educated G7 country (57.5% of the population has a bachelors degree or better)
We have many problems here in Canada, but retaining talent is not one of them.
Yes I agree with you. Canadians are quite well educated. The problem becomes the lack of opportunities for all of those people. You end up strong competition for little jobs, which drives the wages down. Couple that with the very expensive housing market, and you get educated young adults that struggle to settle down.
Across the border in the US, opportunities in the STEM and plenty and wages are much better. US has lots of problems, but attracting talent is not one of them and Canadians talent is super easy to enter the US
When there’s PhD people driving taxi, I understand them when they quit Canada