Poilievre says Waterloo tech graduates are "our biggest export right now" : r/uwaterloo

Unofficial student and alumni-run subreddit for the University of Waterloo community for a brief moment in time, we were sucking in engineers to Nortel/ottawa, and then right after, RIM/Blackberry. So many ex Canadians came to waterloo from Cali. And the dollar was at parity for awhile. Now, bleh. The same problem has been brought up over and over again -- even when Nortel was at its peak: https://youtu.be/sDdC3-LT7pM?t=342 The US has always had unbelievably deep pockets and a much more competitive market when it comes to talent. Big tech firms have offices in Canada, but they won't pay nearly as much here both due to cost of living as well as not needing to. You really cannot compete with the US in money -- really nobody can. Canada's proximity to the US as well as the fact that uni grads are much less likely to care where they live make it basically impossible to retain key Canadian talent when the salary numbers just don't work out. Anyone telling you they have a "solution" to this

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