Mike

My annual MRI scan gives me a USB stick with the data, but you need this commercial windows software to open it. Ran Claude on the stick and asked it to make me a html based viewer tool. This looks... way better.

On Friday the US government announced an update to the H-1B visa – the most significant program for foreign high-skilled professionals working in the US – to add a $100,000 fee for new visa applicants. This change creates risks and opportunities for Canada. Without action, U.S. companies will target Canadian engineers, scientists, and healthcare professionals to bypass the fee by recruiting under the TN visa. This would threaten our tech sector, drain tax revenues, and worsen shortages in critical fields like healthcare. Canada is an ideal target for this kind of poaching, with a deep pool of highly educated talent, shared cultural values, and native English fluency. But it is also an opportunity. Hundreds of thousands of highly skilled and highly paid H-1B professionals – many graduates of the world’s best universities, part of the same pipeline that produced leaders like Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, and Elon Musk – are now seeking a new home. Canada, with its world-class research institutions, similar timezones, proximity to the US, and high quality of life, is the natural destination. To seize this chance, we must act quickly. We need to prioritize the world's top talent and create a pathway for H-1B workers to move to Canada. This will increase opportunities for Canadians to stay at home rather than incentivizing moves to the U.S. Read the full memo below.

Canada should not miss the opportunity around Trumps H1 visa executive order to get the best and brightest who will no longer be able to do their medical residency training in the USA. Many Canadians who’ve done medical school abroad go to the United States to complete residency training and then end up staying there. Let’s get these Canadians back to Canada to complete their training here now that it will be almost impossible for them to complete training in the USA. If the Prime Minister wants a national project alongside building roads and developing infrastructure we need a concerted Canadian effort to expand medical residency positions over the next 90 days. Get all the ministers of health and education in a room. Make this happen. Do not miss this opportunity. We can do this.