{"id":104628,"date":"2026-09-07T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T07:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=104628"},"modified":"2026-09-06T10:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T14:44:18","slug":"an-exit-tax-what-next-internal-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/an-exit-tax-what-next-internal-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"An “exit tax”? What next, internal passports?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months back, there was a brief online reaction to the Liberal Party idea of imposing a ridiculously high “exit tax” on young Canadians taking jobs in other countries — and by “other countries” they really only meant the United States. I dismissed it at the time as just someone letting their Liberal freak flag fly<\/a> … but:<\/p>\n

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Jesus Christ. These boomer leaflibs, man.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t occur to him to ask why highly trained Canadian engineers would rather work in the US. Actually no, he tacitly admits this: they get paid more. Why is that? Why can’t they get paid well in Canada, putting their skills to work here, developing innovative, world-leading technologies right at home in Canada? <\/p>\n

The answer is obvious. Because there is no opportunity in Canada. It’s all but impossible to develop high tech industry here. The regulations are too thick, and all the available investment capital gets sucked up into real estate development. <\/p>\n

Maybe Canada should try and fix that, so that Canada is actually an attractive country for talented young Canadians?<\/p>\n

But nah fuck those kids, we should just charge them a half million dollar exit tax so if they can’t pay that they can just let their dreams die and get a job at BMO. <\/p>\n

Oh and at the same time we should flood Canada with “world leading talent” (from Calcutta), in order to make it that much more impossible for Canadian engineers to find employment in their fields at home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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