Trump’s trade war pushes Canadian technology workers to rethink Silicon Valley

“Some Canadians in the group ask,” Should we transfer our office? Should we change our approach? “But we don’t really know what will happen. If anything, America does not know either. Canadians do not want these problems. We just want to coexist. “

ALYSAA Co, Director of Bain Capital Ventures and his Canadian colleague. She noted that one of the Payne Wallets, a startup in Toronto, is working on US -based small companies from its inception. Ideally, CO said, the startup will not have to rethink this strategy.

Some mocked the maple syrup gang in the United States and American culture. A business pioneer, who has shown a tool for the same Amnesty International to help children learn mathematics, asked the crowd to roast it and make sincere notes on its application. He said: “Priment as if you were from Texas. Or I claim that you are Trump.”

Canadian pride and national feeling has increased since Trump has begun to threaten North America’s neighbor and took a difficult line in trade. The percentage of Canadians who say they are “very proud” in their country Jump In February only two months ago, according to data analysis from the Angus Reed Institute, a Canadian non -profit research organization. While Canada is preparing for the national elections within a few weeks, the two main political parties emphasize the importance of “Canada first” and defend national sovereignty. The liberal Carney Party, which was drowning in the polls before Trump’s speech towards Canada became the darkness. leap As Prime Minister, a former banker, he put himself the best candidate to protect Canada’s economy.

This increasing sense of Canadian national pride has climbed to the technology sector, as well, where some investors and founders of emerging companies view the division between the United States and Canada as an opportunity to enhance their country’s productivity and self -dependence. A group of Canadian technology entrepreneurs, including the COPIFY and COHERE executives, have completed a promotional campaign called Build Canada with the aim of influencing policy on technology, tax reform and immigration. Article in Canadian Betakit Blog I stated that these technology leaders “felt frustrated by the liberal government and the problems of long -term productivity in the country.”

“It is too late, we will look at this American customs tariff as an important call to wake up (Canada).” He said on x In early February. Wertz wrote to diversify Canada for diversifying its international commercial partners away from the United States, canceling the regulation of trade between provinces, and doubling the energy infrastructure. It also included “border security/difficult for crime” as an agenda element.

Canada has been an important source of technical talents in the Silicon Valley since the North American Free Trade Agreement was established in 1994, which included a program that gives unlimited number of visas to skilled professionals looking to move from Canada or Mexico to the United States. (NAFTA was replaced by the compatibility of the United States and Mexico -Kanada, or USMCA, in 2020.) Canadians working in technology can quickly get rid of the names of the founders of unicorn and other prominent figures who are already from their country of origin, including the Uber Cofble Garrett Garret Migicovsky – not to mention thousands of engineers Canadians who make the products behind the scenes.