Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

[Czech_pivo]

Interesting anecdote, which supports the "jobs" reason. The data also lays out other reasons like healthcare. My point in all of this is Canada has wasted and continues to waste it's potential, and as long as it does so we will continue to bleed and stagnate comparatively. This can be minimized if not fixed altogether. We choose not to.

Its not the 'jobs' reason - these individuals all had fantastic careers/opportunities here - but - they wanted to test their skills/abilities in an environment that is 10X the size of ours. Unless you've lived/worked in the US or have travelled extensively through the country then I don't think you can understand the appeal to be 'the best' in a work environment that is 10X the size of anything we have here.

 

[ArmyRick]

Big point being missed here.

We should have/should be setting Canada to become the place well educated and entrepreneurial Americans flock to for opportunities.

They won't.

We have a gazillion reasons to encourage them not to come here and we make it very easy for people to say good bye to here.

I do know a lot of very good smart, well educated and hard working people who choose to go to the USA for better opportunities. The fact that my son is eyeing up a bunch of engineering schools in the states is personally very concerning.

 

[mariomike]

- but - they wanted to test their skills/abilities in an environment that is 10X the size of ours.

Nothing new new about people traveling from small to large population centers for employment opportunities.

 

[ArmyRick]

Nothing new about people who keep ignoring a thousand knife cuts until the whole system is dead.

Jobs leaving, Smart and talented people leaving, Businesses leaving or closing, money leaving (that happens in multiple ways), investors looking elsewhere.

Rather than dismiss all these little symptoms as nothing burgers, how about we RAISE the bar by saying how do we entice more job creation (non government), recruit the talented people of the world, get more businesses to open and encourage others to come back, get investors to actually invest in Canada, and lets get foreign money to come here (and make it Canadian bucks).

Its like dealing with one of my relatives who choose to ignore the symptoms of his obvious cancer until it was too late to do anything about it.

 

[PrairieFella]

Something that crossed my mind is we should really stop comparing ourselves to the USA in all regards. Its not a very apt comparison imo. Our comparables are the UK, France, Italy, S Korea, etc. Thats not to say we shouldnt aspire to rise to the economic prowess of the global hegemon, but there are serious global structural impediments to compete 1-for-1. The biggest one that comes to mind atm being the Americans basically have the infinite money glitch on by being the global reserve currency for nigh a century. That is catching up to them now but it has served them well since the 40s.