President Donald Trump’s new US$100,000 fee on H-1B visas offers a generational opportunity for Canada to rebuild our tech ecosystem. We can reverse the brain drain and attract top talent and companies to our country.

For decades, top engineering and computer science students from around the world have migrated to the US, often using H-1B visas, to work for companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Google. In fact, both Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella entered the US using H-1B visas .

Y Combinator was recently in Toronto, hosting an event for engineering and computer science students offering US$20,000 for them to move to Silicon Valley next summer and build a startup at the Y Combinator offices. If the company likes their startup,

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