It’ll always be hard in some industries. Nowhere on earth can compete with silicon valley on pay or opportunities. Europe to a lesser degree and East Asia to a greater degree can hold onto more talent because of the linguistic and cultural divide with Silicon Valley keeping more people at home but we don’t have that luxury.
There are many other industries where it’s closer and we need to create better conditions to keep our best and brightest in Canada
Forward_Age6247 on
Let’s put an electrified fence around Canada and shock young people if they try to leave.
prsnep on
Bring back policy to help the working class. Let smart people build here. That means allowing wages to rise. Encouraging entrepreneurship. Not standing in the way of innovation.
The executive class and the not-working class have gotten enough help.
It also means ensuring that companies and people who have gotten significant taxpayer subsidies are asked to pay back if they are choosing to contribute elsewhere.
It also means having a country we can be proud of. That needs selective immigration and managed inflow.
MissAmberR on
Make it affordable , so people can buy homes and not worry about the price of groceries.. that would be a great start
AbnormallyBendPenis on
I really hope Canada can pull this off. As a 30 yrs old Canadian I moved to the Texas in 2022 and I’m currently on a TN visa. My quality of life is much higher in the USA than in Canada, I can make almost triple the amount of salary in the US compared to the laughable wages I was making in Toronto, I have decent health insurance coverage, doctor’s appointments doesn’t take 8 months, overall just a very chill enjoyable lifestyle.
While TN is a somewhat “temporary” visa and I eventually have to go back to Canada, I can’t imagine living the life I had in Toronto ever again, where almost half of my paycheck is just housing and everything costs so much more compared to how much you’re making. I remember Canada being a great country growing up, but after I grew up and stepped into the society, I felt like the younger generations are totally abandoned by the government, everything now is just a rat race to the buttom. Something has to change.
Wind_Best_1440 on
Cut a lot of the red tape, and fees and costs for building. (Literally over 30% of the cost to building is literally just fees and taxes.) Also stop NIMBY’s from stopping all new construction so they can keep inflating their value at the cost of all new housing.
Next move 50% of the fees from building onto property taxes. It’s a joke that all the cities budgets is on new construction and not pushed onto property taxes like the rest of the western world.
After that, stop the TFW program and any immigration based hiring. Scrap it, full stop. There is not a labour issue, it’s a wage issue. These programs are being abused theres videos of it being abused the population isn’t stupid. (Nearly 20% of 15-24 years are looking and out of work. Stop it with the BS “Labour shortage” It doesn’t exist, it never did. PAY YOUR WORKERS.)
Make starting a new business easier, likewise break up the monopolies like the grocer mafia’s.
Stop focusing on trying to turn housing into profits, one of the main reasons why the economy feels like crap is because people spend 80% of their wages on shelter. Which is why 1/4 Canadians are starving and 3/5 are food insecure and child poverty is sky rocketing. Cheaper shelter = More money for basics and the economy. Economics 101.
Immigration needs to go back to how it was before Trudeau, and it needs to hold at 1:1 to Canadian births.
Not just PR, but, PR/TR/TFW/INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ectect to Canadian births. So, if there is 300k Canadians born each year, then the max amount of immigrants brought in should be 300k.
Canada roughly has 350k births per year, to reach 2.1 replacement we need 450-500k births, with 350k births and matching that with immigration, we already hit that goal for a healthy replacement of people. WE DONT NEED 1.4 million people per year like we had since 2022, excluding this one year. Give Canada a damn couple of years to process the sheer amount of people that came into the country.
Do all of that, and maybe, just maybe people wont want to leave.
paditoburrito on
From the article:
“*How do we keep them from going? Not by copying the Soviet Union, East Germany or North Korea and forcing them to stay. Nor by imposing an exit fee of $500,000 to compensate taxpayers for emigrants’ subsidized education, as former Google executive, Patrick Pichette, suggested at last weekend’s Liberal party convention. That this quirky, illiberal proposal elicited strong applause from the delegates says a lot about modern Liberalism.*
*An exit fee would be wrong on several counts. Most importantly, it’s an attack on the freedom we value in a democratic society — liberals and Liberals more than anyone, supposedly. Parents pay for their children’s education through property, income and school taxes, and via various fees and levies. Why shouldn’t they want their children to pursue the best available opportunities, even if they are outside Canada?*”
Why in the hell should we subsidize and pay for emigrants’ subsidized education and not have a fee or taxes imposed when they complete their degree and leave to work in another country while we are left with the debt?
He goes on to say:
“*Long treated as central Canada’s colony, Alberta has been weakened since 2015 by federal policies that undermine economic growth. Though per capita incomes are down from 2014, when commodity prices crashed, the province still transfers close to $20 billion a year to other provinces by paying more federal taxes than Ottawa spends in Alberta. That net tax burden — close to a tenth of household income — would be more acceptable if Albertans felt they had influence over federal decision-making. But they don’t, which is why even those who don’t want outright separation generally favour greater provincial autonomy.*”
No mention on Alberta’s lack of HST/PST or lower rate of GST. No mention of how most Albertans issues with federal government are actually all provincially determined policy and regulations and funding cuts. No mention on the income earned compared to other provinces and how AB has the highest GDP per capita overall and it is provincial bending over for O&G why that income doesn’t reach the actual workers.
Of course! the answer to make Canada better must be to lower taxes and let anyone in to take up as much subsidized advantage as they can from us before pissing off to benefit other countries. /s
What a joke.
Edit: punctuation correction
Lord-Maplefrost on
That not going to happen with the Liberal Party in power.
Ambitious_Kick_7967 on
enough
Mogman282 on
Want people to stay? Offer better wages, faster access to doctors or surgeries. Fix the broken revolving door bail reform. Stop the wasted spending which is jacking tax rates up year over year. Swear there is 1 road here that has been paved and ripped up least 3 times this past year that’s insane the waste which results in a 5% tax hike year over year.
toilet_for_shrek on
If we can’t keep up with American salaries, then we can at least increase the standard of living and make living in Canada cheaper.
Unfortunately, the liberals have chosen to keep real estate high and instead of improving living standards, would rather import people that are willing to put up with less
MinuteCampaign7843 on
The liberals are anti-prosperity, anti-small and medium business and anti-give a flying F about Canadians. They are self serving elitists and truly believe they are the rightful overlords of us peasants.
Don’t believe me? Prove me wrong.
bba89 on
Best we can do is replace the ones that leave with international students and TFW’s.. /s
iLikeReading4563 on
This is also the guy that promised lower corporate tax rates would lead to greater business investment and productivity growth. All we got was a housing “investment” bubble, while corporations piled up cash and reduced their investment into tools and equipment for workers.
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It’s really that simple
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It’ll always be hard in some industries. Nowhere on earth can compete with silicon valley on pay or opportunities. Europe to a lesser degree and East Asia to a greater degree can hold onto more talent because of the linguistic and cultural divide with Silicon Valley keeping more people at home but we don’t have that luxury.
There are many other industries where it’s closer and we need to create better conditions to keep our best and brightest in Canada
Let’s put an electrified fence around Canada and shock young people if they try to leave.
Bring back policy to help the working class. Let smart people build here. That means allowing wages to rise. Encouraging entrepreneurship. Not standing in the way of innovation.
The executive class and the not-working class have gotten enough help.
It also means ensuring that companies and people who have gotten significant taxpayer subsidies are asked to pay back if they are choosing to contribute elsewhere.
It also means having a country we can be proud of. That needs selective immigration and managed inflow.
Make it affordable , so people can buy homes and not worry about the price of groceries.. that would be a great start
I really hope Canada can pull this off. As a 30 yrs old Canadian I moved to the Texas in 2022 and I’m currently on a TN visa. My quality of life is much higher in the USA than in Canada, I can make almost triple the amount of salary in the US compared to the laughable wages I was making in Toronto, I have decent health insurance coverage, doctor’s appointments doesn’t take 8 months, overall just a very chill enjoyable lifestyle.
While TN is a somewhat “temporary” visa and I eventually have to go back to Canada, I can’t imagine living the life I had in Toronto ever again, where almost half of my paycheck is just housing and everything costs so much more compared to how much you’re making. I remember Canada being a great country growing up, but after I grew up and stepped into the society, I felt like the younger generations are totally abandoned by the government, everything now is just a rat race to the buttom. Something has to change.
Cut a lot of the red tape, and fees and costs for building. (Literally over 30% of the cost to building is literally just fees and taxes.) Also stop NIMBY’s from stopping all new construction so they can keep inflating their value at the cost of all new housing.
Next move 50% of the fees from building onto property taxes. It’s a joke that all the cities budgets is on new construction and not pushed onto property taxes like the rest of the western world.
After that, stop the TFW program and any immigration based hiring. Scrap it, full stop. There is not a labour issue, it’s a wage issue. These programs are being abused theres videos of it being abused the population isn’t stupid. (Nearly 20% of 15-24 years are looking and out of work. Stop it with the BS “Labour shortage” It doesn’t exist, it never did. PAY YOUR WORKERS.)
Make starting a new business easier, likewise break up the monopolies like the grocer mafia’s.
Stop focusing on trying to turn housing into profits, one of the main reasons why the economy feels like crap is because people spend 80% of their wages on shelter. Which is why 1/4 Canadians are starving and 3/5 are food insecure and child poverty is sky rocketing. Cheaper shelter = More money for basics and the economy. Economics 101.
Immigration needs to go back to how it was before Trudeau, and it needs to hold at 1:1 to Canadian births.
Not just PR, but, PR/TR/TFW/INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ectect to Canadian births. So, if there is 300k Canadians born each year, then the max amount of immigrants brought in should be 300k.
Canada roughly has 350k births per year, to reach 2.1 replacement we need 450-500k births, with 350k births and matching that with immigration, we already hit that goal for a healthy replacement of people. WE DONT NEED 1.4 million people per year like we had since 2022, excluding this one year. Give Canada a damn couple of years to process the sheer amount of people that came into the country.
Do all of that, and maybe, just maybe people wont want to leave.
From the article:
“*How do we keep them from going? Not by copying the Soviet Union, East Germany or North Korea and forcing them to stay. Nor by imposing an exit fee of $500,000 to compensate taxpayers for emigrants’ subsidized education, as former Google executive, Patrick Pichette, suggested at last weekend’s Liberal party convention. That this quirky, illiberal proposal elicited strong applause from the delegates says a lot about modern Liberalism.*
*An exit fee would be wrong on several counts. Most importantly, it’s an attack on the freedom we value in a democratic society — liberals and Liberals more than anyone, supposedly. Parents pay for their children’s education through property, income and school taxes, and via various fees and levies. Why shouldn’t they want their children to pursue the best available opportunities, even if they are outside Canada?*”
Why in the hell should we subsidize and pay for emigrants’ subsidized education and not have a fee or taxes imposed when they complete their degree and leave to work in another country while we are left with the debt?
He goes on to say:
“*Long treated as central Canada’s colony, Alberta has been weakened since 2015 by federal policies that undermine economic growth. Though per capita incomes are down from 2014, when commodity prices crashed, the province still transfers close to $20 billion a year to other provinces by paying more federal taxes than Ottawa spends in Alberta. That net tax burden — close to a tenth of household income — would be more acceptable if Albertans felt they had influence over federal decision-making. But they don’t, which is why even those who don’t want outright separation generally favour greater provincial autonomy.*”
No mention on Alberta’s lack of HST/PST or lower rate of GST. No mention of how most Albertans issues with federal government are actually all provincially determined policy and regulations and funding cuts. No mention on the income earned compared to other provinces and how AB has the highest GDP per capita overall and it is provincial bending over for O&G why that income doesn’t reach the actual workers.
Of course! the answer to make Canada better must be to lower taxes and let anyone in to take up as much subsidized advantage as they can from us before pissing off to benefit other countries. /s
What a joke.
Edit: punctuation correction
That not going to happen with the Liberal Party in power.
enough
Want people to stay? Offer better wages, faster access to doctors or surgeries. Fix the broken revolving door bail reform. Stop the wasted spending which is jacking tax rates up year over year. Swear there is 1 road here that has been paved and ripped up least 3 times this past year that’s insane the waste which results in a 5% tax hike year over year.
If we can’t keep up with American salaries, then we can at least increase the standard of living and make living in Canada cheaper.
Unfortunately, the liberals have chosen to keep real estate high and instead of improving living standards, would rather import people that are willing to put up with less
The liberals are anti-prosperity, anti-small and medium business and anti-give a flying F about Canadians. They are self serving elitists and truly believe they are the rightful overlords of us peasants.
Don’t believe me? Prove me wrong.
Best we can do is replace the ones that leave with international students and TFW’s.. /s
This is also the guy that promised lower corporate tax rates would lead to greater business investment and productivity growth. All we got was a housing “investment” bubble, while corporations piled up cash and reduced their investment into tools and equipment for workers.