Comment Where will they live? (Score 1) 293
The rental vacancy rate in Canada's major cities is approximately zero, and what little is available is extremely expensive. Buying a place is even more expensive and is incompatible with a visa anyway, i.e. do your thing then go home. Everybody wants to live in Vancouver or Toronto. I guess they can live in a van or something, because that's all they'll be able to afford.
A number of well-known high-tech companies already have facilities in Canada so they can bring in cheap overseas workers in excess of available H1-B visas.
How many Canadian high-tech people are un- or underemployed?
...laura, employed high-tech Canadian