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I don't think Canada replacing its native workforce with H1Bs who got purged from jobs in the US will do much, if anything, to change the problems in the US. H1B staff are so entrenched now in companies like Mastercard, Chase, Citi, BofA, etc that they are the ones that do the technical screening and interviews. As long as those companies can easily get fresh approvals for H1bs (and they give lots of money to elected officials to retain that privilege), the only "qualified" people these H1B screeners will pass are other H1bs.

Mediocre citizen checking in - I would never live in the US.

I would never live in the US, but I'm free to be angry at what the last 20 years of provincial and federal governments have done to this country -- especially the under-regulated real estate market which is out of control relative to the rest of the G7 and driven cost of living through the roof.

Not so much for me as I'm mostly mortgage free at this point, but for my kids someday, I despair.

That, and underfunding the health care system and underbuilding infrastructure

It's a corrupt and mediocre country. But it wasn't always like this. And no, I don't blame Trudeau. Both major parties and the entire corporate & political class are implicated.

It's just catching up with other big cities. Owning a house in London/UK, SF/US, SYDNEY/AUS etc. has been out of reach forever. Canada has a lot of challenges, as have other countries.

Mediocre, rofl.

If only you applied the same logic to americans

I'm curious which countries aren't mediocre by your standards ?

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