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Re:Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-jo... by SEJeff on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @03:25PM (#36511349)
FWIW, Canada did something fairly similar with laws / incentives regarding filming whereas California became outright hostile towards the movie industry. That is why so many shows and movies are now filmed (believe it or not) in Canada and not in the US.

https://reviewed.usatoday.com/canada/streaming/features/best...

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?locations=Canada

The US is losing out on a lot of tax revenue because of poor policies disincentivizing an entire industry.

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Re:Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-jo... by version_five on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @03:40PM (#36511548)
Or the Canadian government is wasting a lot of money subsidizing an industry. It's not clear to me which is correct but I know many of our industries are effectively pretend and bough with government money
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Re:Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-jo... by SEJeff on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @03:49PM (#36511648)
Hollywood has been spending literally over a billion USD equiv a year in "Hollywood North" aka Canada since around 2006. It creates thousands of local jobs and has a lot of follow on effects.

This was more or less the culmination of super-NIMBY California folks making an entire industry pick up and move due to hostilities.

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Re:Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-jo... by version_five on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @03:59PM (#36511772)
So, is it a net benefit or not?
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Re:Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-jo... by SEJeff on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @10:37PM (#36515675)
A large benefit for Canada, yes. It decimated the local industry in or around Los Angeles when I lived there. I was a software engineer and didn’t much care but had several friends who were affected.
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Re:Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-jo... by wasimanitoba on Friday June 30, 2023 @04:40AM (#36532114)
The American and European auto, agriculture and aerospace sectors are all so dependent on subsidies that the same could be said for them as well, and yet those industries remain the bedrock of global capitalism.
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