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Have all the canadian brains left the country?

2/19/2017

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This POST will build on one of my previous posts re all the Canadian expats that are now living in the US. In a July 2013 FP article titled Why Is Canada Failing at Tech it was estimated that 350,000 Canadian technology professionals were living in the San Francisco Bay area. The Reason? "
a veritable lost generation lured by good, high-paying tech jobs and access to collaborators and capital." It's not getting any better, in fact most Canadian proffesionals would gladly head south if the opportunity arose

The following are excerpts from the February 16th. George Takach, senior partner at McCarthy Tétrault LLP article Canada's Patent Deficit....

"relative to our key trading partners, and especially the United States, we are not as innovative and have not invested as heavily in information technology and other productivity-enhancing devices, systems and methodologies (such as state-of-the-art e commerce platforms). This gap – this deficit – threatens our future prosperity. For example, roughly 3 per cent of our workforce is made up of people in information and telecommunications jobs. In leading digital countries, that percentage is between 6 and 8 per cent.

How dismal is the state of patent-filing in Canada? Even the North Koreans are outperforming us! We are simply not among the top 20 countries in terms of patents filed per capita. Read the full article here.
http://newscdn.newsrep.net/h5/nrshare.html?r=3&lan=en_US&pid=14&id=UJ8ea4090yn_us&app_lan=en_US&mcc=&declared_lan=en_US&pubaccount=ocms_0&showall=1
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Many Canadian companies state that finding qualified engineers and programmers has always been a challenge. It’s only getting harder. Forecasts indicate that in a decade there will be a staggering 1.5 million jobs unfilled in Canada

What is our Federal and Provincial Governments doing to keep our talent in Canada once educated? Oh ya, take 53% of their income in taxes and more.

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