Tech salaries in Canada are in line with other highly paid professionals - I make as much up here as a lawyer... it is true that I'm not looking at the 600k+options job postings you'd see in the SF bubble but I certainly make enough that daily costs aren't a stressor.

Canada is probably about due for a major wage correction though - the PSAC strikes are a pretty good indicator that it's time to either seriously consider 32/hr weeks or starting to claw back corporate excess... that's sort of an international issue though.