YOU HEARD IT FROM MELKUO FIRST

Ideas so good you have to build a wall to keep people in

Since others are doing it it makes it okay?

Just because you don’t want to compete in a global economy doesn’t mean Canada gets to abstain

@KyleJollymore89 You're the one who is trying to stop people from competing in a global economy by restricting their ability to leave, though. You can't compete with the US so you have to try to lock talented people in.

@rileysolotshi @KyleJollymore89 You’re the one that wants to spend taxpayer’s money on people who do not contribute to the Canadian economy

This is a bad idea. The best and brightest leave - just like they leave India, China, Iran - regardless of how difficult you make it. The best and brightest are motivated by reward, not punishment.

Lock in young talent to free up that 10 billion for foreign aid, proxy wars and gender studies in Uganda. Ill be gone. But you freaks deserve whats coming. Enjoy it.

The born and raised Canadian is nothing more than a tax generation vehicle so these freaks can fritter away the money on their idiotic political projects. No wonder they prefer ready made tax cattle brought in from abroad ready for milking.

Admits to doing the very thing he is advising to stop - what an asshole

Patrick Pichette is lecturing Canadians like me who moved to the US for better opportunities. He complains tax dollars are wasted subsidizing higher education and he's not even living in Canada anymore. But what real incentives has Canada offered us to stay? High taxes, heavy regulation, and smaller markets aren't exactly compelling. The irony is thick too 😂. This is the same guy who studied at Oxford, became Google's CFO, made a fortune in Silicon Valley, moved to London, and benefited from a stable Canadian economy. Now this boomer wants to shut the door on the next generation doing exactly what he did. And they wonder why younger people give boomers so much flack. Success stories like him pull up the ladder once they're at the top.

unfathomable to me that people can say shit like this in public forums and not be severely embarrassed and constantly questioning what the hell is wrong with them. this is no longer a country that has any resemblance to the type of free society I want to live in.

I will repeat that it is my assertion that if the US really wanted to *crush* us, they would create a skilled worker visa for engineers and doctors like the TN, but with a clear pathway to a green card.

High skilled talent leaving is a symptom of a problem, not the problem itself. You could stop every Waterloo grad from crossing the border but it won’t magically create a favorable tax system and VCs that don’t expect returns in 24 months. This is just tall poppy politics

Because this strategy worked so darn well for so many years in East Germany.

Why are they applying MAiD to the country? Why do they insist on being so fucking retarded? More importantly why are people voting for this?

LOOL shitposting policy into existence truly works

I mean, the TN-1 isn't really Canada's to cancel - and we'd have trouble negotiating with the US to cancel their side because it benefits them a lot more than it does Canada.

The Boomers are not content to simply ruin Canada for their offspring. They now want to impose financially devastating exit tolls on Canadian youth seeking to flee the Boomer ruination. This is intergenerational sadism. @TristinHopper @jengerson @mattgurney @cselley

Weird that they don't seem to give a fuck about the millions of our dollars they give to 3rd world shitholes lol

No one is illegal….until they want to leave

Truly one of the worst ideas I've ever heard. Would make higher education very risky for anyone who doesn't come from a rich family.

Holeee sheeiitt… this demented feeble Soviet aristocrat is DETERMINED to cause a headlong sprint for the doors — before they become gates. Why are the terminally-leftist acorn-brains unwilling to reason based on human incentives?! Restore people’s hope & pay, and they will stay!

Dinosaurs. Everyone in here is a stupid boomer dinosaur that destroyed all opportunity. Lacking imagination and creativity with no tangible ideas

Someone, remind this, and all other Libtards - who flooded the country with 'foreign 'students', temp workers and no-visa required intercompany transfer? So the few monopolies in Canada, can have their 'cheap bodies'?

We leave because of lack of opportunity, toxic and incompetent bureaucracy. I particularly hate the high taxes funding retarded programs run by incompetent buffoons. Like the ttc and safe injection sites

This is ultimately how Berlin Walls end up being built.

Meanwhile we've sent over $25 billion to Ukraine, $19 billion a year on government consultants, not to mention the millions we give to other countries for ridiculous projects

Where are we getting this $500k figure from? And rather than saying people can't have agency to move elsewhere, maybe Canadian enterprise needs to focus on growth themselves. Conservative corporate (not just govt.) culture gives people little choice but to leave.

So the guy who moved to the US to take advantage of all the opportunity down there wants to pull the ladder up now. Got it.

This is typical zero sum thinking, that Canadians can’t seem to get past. Should immigrants to Canada have to pay their former countries too? Hell, we even have people out here saying this between provinces. Do you think a world where that is the norm is a richer place?

I saw we just give people lobotomies if they want to leave the country.

So instead of becoming more attractive we will figure out waits to prevent people from leaving. Nobody thinks this is tyrannical in anyway? Sheesh.

@grok who is the guy speaking? Has he lived in USA?

In principle there is nothing wrong with this idea. In practice of course I expect the outcome to look something like east berlin.

LMAO 500k is a load of BS. The real numbers are closer to 10k for Ontario students. I think if they're getting a 300k offer from Microsoft they'd be willing to pay back that subsidy real quick.

Instead of making Canada a more sensible place to live, we should punish people trying to leave 😆

In this case Fuck You Canada! Does Canada compensate the countries of origin of immigrants who come here already educated? Hypocrites and entitled!

There is no wisdom in his statement. Canadian elites always find cheap way to fix problems. They fail to ask why are people moving with TN visa. How productive is Canada? Unfortunately they are clapping for that opinion. Does Canada have any blueprint to secure it future?