The US just made it much harder for talented foreigners to work in the country. On Friday, September 19th, President Trump signed an executive order to add a $100,000 fee to every new H-1B visa application. This change will fundamentally alter the global competition for talent.Think of it like a massive game of musical chairs. Top talent is looking for a place to sit and America just removed many of their options. Canada can either watch from the sidelines as skilled workers scramble for the remaining seats, or it can quickly add new chairs for the best players.
Anecdotal story: Once upon a time when Opti was still working actual jobs, a strategy was developed with US+CA HR for an international engineering company to build a competence center where we'd funnel top European engineers to Ontario instead of New England, simply because H-1B has always sucked, in large part because it is used aggressively by consultancy firms (see also #1234323), whereas Canada offered much better perspectives for the employees themselves. The US did offer better visa regime outcomes for management personnel though (L-1).
It's not a hard thing to figure out if you have competent HR, so you don't even have to spend top Bitcoin to hire Opti to advice you... just do it.