Business and political leaders around the world typically abhor the kind of instability caused by President Trump’s rapidly enacted new H-1B visa rules and trade tariffs, but one country sees plenty of opportunity in the chaos: Canada.
Canada’s tech sector, despite the country’s well-regarded universities and robust government-funded research, has long been made up primarily of regional offices for U.S. tech giants such as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, with only a few homegrown tech powerhouses to call its own—notably Shopifyand the once-dominant BlackBerry. But with the Trump administration imposing additional hurdles for visas for top tech talent, the Canadian government sees a chance to break that cycle. And its representatives are talking a big game about making the country a wellspring of world-class AI companies.
