CANADA – Forcing people to pay a moral tax if they leave the country won’t inspire them to stay
“You want to go to the U.S.? Give me back my money,” he said at the Liberal Party convention in Montreal this past weekend, arguing that graduates educated at Canadian post-secondary institutions should repay his wild estimate of $500,000 in partially taxpayer-subsidized education they received.
The growing number of successful Canadians who are leaving Canada or exploring the idea is not a theoretical trend and the capital attached to those departures is measured in the tens of billions of dollars. Proposals such as Pichette’s don’t solve the talent and capital exodus; they concede it.
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