[chrisseaton]

Do you know the concept of 'brain drain'?

Canada is paying (I presume, not an expert in how Canadian universities are funded) to educate these people, but then they immediately take all their wealth creation out of the country.

Nobody's saying they shouldn't be able to do that if they want, but it has long term impacts on the country's wealth, but also its ability to more generally develop, to keep educating itself, and to perform jobs that can't be done by another a company in another country, like some parts of government, defence, healthcare, etc.

It's also just a bad indicator. Why do they need to move? Why can't they get what they want here? If the first thing 84% of your graduates do is get the hell out of your country as fast as they can then you should probably stop and think about what's going wrong that makes them want to do that?

[rchaud]

I think the brain drain argument matters far more to developing countries that export engineering, medical and scientific expertise abroad.

Canada isn't exactly falling apart because Waterloo grads are leaving to work on Doordash's algorithm.