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Terry Newman: Tech exec pitches Liberal convention on $500k exit tax for educated Canadians

Patrick Pichette, now living in London after building his career at Microsoft and Google on easy TN visas, calls for killing mobility pathway he used or imposing a massive payback

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MONTREAL — Are you a Canadian considering improving your situation after graduating by moving abroad for better, higher paying opportunities? A guest speaker at the federal Liberal party convention on Friday just suggested that, in order to defeat Canada’s brain-drain problem, our best and brightest either stay put or cough up half a million dollars, what he suggests is the cost of their taxpayer-subsidized education, before they can pursue opportunities outside of Canada.

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Ironically, the special guest who made this suggestion during the Building a Stronger, More Competitive Canadian Economy panel which also featured federal ministers Mélanie Joly, Rechie Valdez, and Lena Metlege Diab, is a Canadian who left Canada for better opportunities, now lives in Europe, and paid no........

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