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Canada under its current leadership is probably a dead end. I'm not trying to be cruel but that's just the reality of your situation. Time to think about emigrating if you want a better future.

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My experience (I’m a hiring manager) is that a LARGE number of big US-based tech companies are only hiring in Canada right now for pretty obvious reasons, and are competing aggressively for top talent here. Many companies are backfilling American roles with remote Canadians when someone in the US exits right now. It’s the best I’ve seen in the ten years I’ve been here.

This is a candle in the dark, thanks for sharing. Hopefully this has residual effects outside tech, for my spouse's sake and that of many others, but it's good nonetheless.

Although deeply cynical, it's hard to wholly disagree, with the exception of specifying the current leadership. I think it's a problem composed of really bad system-level feedback loops at multiple levels of government and society that extend decades back and are only now becoming this evident recently. I do think that in terms of the tenure of the Liberals, they've had a rare amount of time to try and mitigate where we're at now, so I can't say I'm a proponent.

Additionally though, I'm quite happy to just forego the obvious material goals instead of emigrating, because despite the leadership, I'm a happy Canadian and love where I live, but hopefully I don't need to question that for a while. I'm not that interested in other countries atm.

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