The tech industry across Canada is booming. And one of the biggest reasons is U.S. immigration policy. The Trump administration has made it harder for high-skilled workers to get visas. Canada, meanwhile, has been making it easier.
Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty ImagesU.S. immigration policy has been a boon for the tech industry in Canada.Hundreds of tech workers pack an auditorium for a recent networking event in Toronto. The evening's host glides around the room on a hoverboard, equal parts game show host and techie.
If there is a war for global tech talent, right now Canada is winning — and the U.S. may be losing its edge. Toronto saw theof any North American city over the past five years, outpacing San Francisco, New York and Seattle. Vancouver also made the top five. Immigration authorities say they're trying to ensure that companies follow the rules. Employers are required to show that hiring a foreign worker will not hurt Americans.
"We doubled the size of our technology team in the last year," Riskin said."And we feel like we have exhausted New York and Denver. And now it's like we're trying to figure out where to go next, what we need to do." "The next-best solution to keeping them here in the U.S., if you can't do that, is to put them in Canada," Rawji said."The flights are an hour and a half to two hours. It's the same business culture. And we try to match or beat the total cost for you here."U.S. tech companies have long relied on a steady stream of engineers and software developers from China, India and elsewhere.
"We don't have enough of them. And we have to be competitive with the rest of the world too," Trump said.Ozge Yoluk started a new job in Toronto this month. She was born in Turkey and studied in Europe. Yoluk worked as a postdoctoral researcher in computational biology at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. She says the field is"like playing video games" — except in these games, the characters are proteins and experimental drugs.
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