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This is going to be an extraordinary opportunity for countries like Canada, Australia and those within the EU to start aggressively attracting talent.

I would be offering to pay for their relocation costs if I were them.

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Could not agree more. I'm a Canadian living in the US right now so I've effectively contributed to Canada's brain drain, but this is a unique opportunity for them to make some moves to try to turn it around a bit.

There's that echo chamber again!

If you disagree with me how about you talk about it like an adult instead of degrading this conversation into shitposting?

Trump is not Mitt Romney. If Romney had have won in 2012, not much would be different in all likelihood. In the case of Trump the guy is so unpredictable that it's difficult to know what - if anything - he's going to do. I don't see why other countries shouldn't take advantage of that unpredictability.

It of curiosity, what visa are you on in the US? Any worries about TN visas with Trump talking about ending NAFTA?

I'm on a TN, as are many of my co-workers. Trump's campaign website did not say anything about Canadian NAFTA work permit holders. We aren't too worried, but we also need know that a Canadian subsidiary + J-1 isn't hard to get if we really have to go that way.

I'm not on TN but I have used it in the past. If Trump ends NAFTA I would imagine the TN visa would go with it since it's part of NAFTA. I'm sure it would disrupt a lot of lives.

I followed until the "I would be offering to pay for their relocation costs if I were them." - That would/could never happen.

Countries can speed up immigration process, companies can pay relocation costs. Not the other way around.

Relocation costs in Canada are tax deductible (same as the US and many others), so essentially the country pays for it.

http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/ndvdls/tpcs/ncm-tx/rtrn/cmpltng/...

Yes, for Canadian citizens, relocating within a country.

That doesn't mean Canada pays for them, it means that income spent on relocating is not taxed.

Like this?

http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/about-council/committees-mee...

Europe is having a lot of issues integrating their own intra-continental migration (Poles, Hungary, Romania, etc.), let alone American immigration. This is a privileged position that poor immigrants don't have. It's a bit ironic.

You might not get relocation costs, but you should seriously consider the UK.

For sure there should be some opportunities there, as all the European talent leave off the back of Brexit.

Or for those countries to stop leaking talent to the US, at least.

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