The US is using tariffs to trap companies inside America. Canada? It’s gift-wrapping its own founders and handing them right back. 🎁

Look at the timing. Canada is the only G7 country in recession. Business investment has dropped five quarters in a row. There’s a once-in-a-decade chance to poach the entrepreneurs Trump’s trade war is scaring off — no tariffs required, just an open door.

Instead:

→ Build a company, hire people, pay taxes → you get a temporary permit.

→ There’s no route where business success = permanent residence. The Start-Up Visa is closed; founders get funneled into a points system designed for fresh grads, not job creators.

→ And the best tax breaks (a 9% rate, a 35% refundable R&D credit) are reserved for Canadian-controlled companies — so a foreign founder is treated as second-class before residency even enters the picture.

Model it on a small 3-person startup and the gap between what Canada does and what it could do is ~CA$200K+ over six years. Per founder. So the founder does the math… and leaves.

Canada doesn’t need a trade war to win this. It needs one rule: build a business + create jobs = a place to stay. Reward results, not paperwork.

Own goal of the decade. 🥅

Agree, or am I missing something? 👇

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