I had a Canadian colleague of mine describe it as the "1812 tax", basically the "tax" Canada pays for losing the 1812 war and failing to become a proper US stat

I had a Canadian colleague of mine describe it as the "1812 tax", basically the "tax" Canada pays for losing the 1812 war and failing to become a proper US state. Everything is more expensive, and the second grade currency doesn't shield them from price variations since the country is too small not to import most goods from the US. Not only that, but a single tariff can wipe out a whole industry, as we saw earlier with the bailout from Airbus. The situation is made worse with a out of control immigration, with 10x the number of migrants as compared to the United States, that all pretty much target urban areas in BC and Toronto. From what he told me, for IT folks it's mostly guys that wouldn't be good enough for a work visa here in the US. This, with all the best university grads getting poached by tech companies here in the valley creates a big surplus of average/low skilled tech workers. I mean, it's fine. It's just that these guys aren't playing in the 120-200k range for top dev talent, more like in the 50k range for average workers.