But this is the problem everywhere. In the states that's the reason outsourcing is such a huge boner for companies. They refuse to pay the market rate for Ameri

But this is the problem everywhere. In the states that's the reason outsourcing is such a huge boner for companies. They refuse to pay the market rate for Americans who will not work six jobs in IT for the pay of one. So they then claim they can't get enough skilled American workers to fill their jobs so they outsource for cheap. It's been like this since at least the early 90s. They want a DBA, network engineer, security engineer, sysadmin, tech support in one person for the price of one of those jobs. When those are individual jobs. But they want you to do it all and pay you for only doing one of those jobs. It is rediculous. So that's why Canada and the US claim there are shortages, you are correct that it comes down to unrealistic salaries by companies. They simply need to realize how hard, and complex IT is and that they MUST pay more to get the talent to develop and maintain this insanely complex world of technology we are in.