🇨🇦 Canada's young entrepreneurs are fleeing south. We need to keep them here

Canada trains them, taxes them, buries them in approvals, then acts stunned when they bolt for the U.S. That is the punchline. A 19-year-old award winner from Ottawa is already eyeing a permanent move south, and she is hardly alone. Canada lost about 65,000 residents to net emigration last year, mostly young high-skilled workers, while nearly one in two founders who raised over $1 million in 2024 are now based in the U.S., as reported.

This is what Trudeau-era managerial Canada built: fifth-highest marginal tax rates in the OECD, layers of red tape, and a political class that thinks summits and press releases can replace a competitive country. Mark Carney now wants an Investment Summit to stem the outflow, because apparently the people who helped make Canada hostile to builders are also the geniuses who will fix it. Sure. When your system rewards bureaucracy over ambition, celebrates regulation over risk, and treats productive citizens like livestock to be milked, the most capable leave. That is not a mystery. It is regime design.

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