Silicon Valley's plan to move foreign born workers to Canada

[PoiBoy]

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/31/in-silicon-valley-plotting-to-get-foreign-born-workers-to-vancouver/


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Whether and when that executive order gets signed is an open question, but at least one small group of cofounders has banded together to make it easier for U.S. companies to create subsidiaries in Canada and to move their U.S.-based employees to a new, Vancouver-based office, and all within what they describe as weeks, not months. They haven’t created a nonprofit. They’ve instead formed a new company called True North that’s right now offering a $6,000 package that includes airfare for one person to Vancouver, two nights of accommodations, and a day with “world-class immigration professionals who will walk you through the process and answer any questions you have.”

The idea: for employees to keep their current jobs with their current employers but to have the option to work via a wholly owned Canadian subsidiary that can provide them with protected status in the event that the U.S. changes its employment regulations.
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Fu*king Republicons......

[Hoyt]

1. Trump initiates brain drain. Buffoon.

[Afromania]

2. and a tax base drain

I wonder how much tax revenue and buying we'll be losing to Canada over this.

[Hoyt]

3. Good point.

[HoneyBadger]

4. Do not think it is quite that simple

For one, Canada provides a lot of social services that ex pats may not need, but they tax based on it. Vancouver is probably cheaper than Silicon Valley, but Vancouver wages are much lower typically. Now if they can make Silicon Valley money, with Canada cost of living, and duck some Canada taxes, well that is living the dream.

[applegrove]

5. They will not have to pay for insurance. That should save them a bit.

Cost of housing in Vancouver is really high. But hey it is a safety plan.

[Hekate]

6. Wonderful plan. It would be a brain drain for the US, which is damn sad, but these workers....

....need protection, Bannon is evil, Trump is nuts, and I'm glad someone is thinking like this.