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by llm_nerd3 hours ago |
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upvoteby petcat3 hours ago|
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You can look here [0] for "North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) professional workers (TN)"

[0] https://ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigration/yearbook/2023/table2...

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upvoteby llm_nerd3 hours ago|
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Do you know what an admission is? A Windsor nurse working in Detroit would count as 300+ admissions over a year.

That does not remotely show what you think it does.

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upvoteby petcat3 hours ago|
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Ah, okay. So the problem is not that bad. It's way overblown!

Meanwhile, the US continues to siphon off every Waterloo and U Toronto STEM grad to the US and American companies.

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upvoteby llm_nerd2 hours ago|
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>So the problem is not that bad. It's way overblown!

You were a magnitude off. And after your stealth edit to be admissions, you still ascribe it all to Canada. Did you know that 56% of TN visa holders are Mexican?

Something like 0.2% of Canada's working-age population holds a TN visa. It's actually kind of hilarious to compare this to your ridiculous take on this.

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upvoteby lambdasquirrel3 hours ago|
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I used to have aspirations to move to Canada and I know folks who have tried to hire SREs in Toronto. While that post may sound hyperbolic, it is for all intents and purposes accurate. You can’t build an SRE team in Toronto because the talent pool is too shallow. It really is that bad. The story repeats over and over. The degree to which the US captured the Western countries through its dollar system is actually quite astounding and should terrify people.
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upvoteby llm_nerd3 hours ago|
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>I used to have aspirations to move to Canada and I know folks who have tried to hire SREs in Toronto

Bizarre. It's like having an American school me on Canadian healthcare.

Here I'm sitting, in Toronto, having hired for a number of software development teams, currently running my own operations, where every position gets an enormously deep volume of extremely capable candidates.

Shallow talent pool? Good god. Canadian technology salaries are depressed because there is an enormous volume of extremely qualified candidates for every job.

It's not hyperbolic, it's asinine bullshit. Every claim they made is factual nonsense, aside from the truth that working in specific areas of the US (silicon valley, NYC) can yield you a huge salary premium, though that is really kind of a thing of the past and this is like looking at old runes.

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