Canada is the way it is because it is next to the U.S. The Canadian brain drain was never entirely the fault of Canada; the gravitational pull of U.S. neolibera

Canada is the way it is because it is next to the U.S. The Canadian brain drain was never entirely the fault of Canada; the gravitational pull of U.S. neoliberal capitalism (what you uncritically and a-historically call 'risk taking') is a nontrivial factor. Canadian protectionism would not go over well with its world power neighbour, which seeks to exploit intellectual and social capital.