As Donald Trump hikes the fee for a popular skilled worker visa programme in the US, lawyers and business experts are urging Canada to seize the moment and open its doors.

But some caution that those looking north as an alternative may find that Canada’s immigration system has its own challenges.

The call to attract and retain talented workers left behind by the Trump administration’s changes to H-1B visa is one that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney appears to be paying attention to.

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    I’m not suggesting it’s beneficial to remove these people.

    I’m suggesting that they be paid the market value for thier talents and that their presence benefit that nation, not a specific company.

    H1B should be replaced by visas with no ties to a company. That’s it.

    When you argue about global markets, i see that as completely unrelated. There is a mechanism for that already and it’s called offshoreing. You wanna move a factory or tech work to an area with a lower cost of living and can pay them less? Go nuts. You want people on shore? Allow them unfettered access to market their skills at the market price of the labour.

    Again, I’m not against people who are here (there, the USA), and I empathize with rural Healthcare. As a rural Canadian all of my doctors have been originally from South Africa for as long as I’ve been alive.

    This genuinely isn’t an anti-immigrant stance. My wife is an immigrant.

    Bring people to your nation and invite them to join your society. The whole idea of bringing people in as second class citizens to be exploited is perverse. I’m not saying don’t have the people. I’m saying empowering those people is in the best interests of abso-fucking-lutely everyone.

    Except the CEOs, i guess, but you’ll forgive me if I can’t muster a tear.

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        I also appreciate yours. I think a fair number of opponents to h1B are just purely rooted in racism/xenophobia.

        This is a case where I wanna hear “what do we replace it with?” From someone before I decide if we’re on the same page or not.