On that subject, how many Unicorns Canada has?
Recent times: possibly Shopify, one other moved to USA
Most money in Canada is controlled by civil pension funds, who don't like smallish investments for big risks.
Thus a large percentage of software engineers move to USA, and are active in Silicon Valley.
Canada suffers from dutch disease; it's simply too easy and profitable to dig stuff up (oil, diamonds, gold, potash, etc.) instead of producing value through software or technology.