The Canadian government’s budget presented on Tuesday includes measures to poach talented workers from abroad, including the United States.

According to a report in ‘The Globe and Mail’, there is a plan for a fast pathway to Canada for holders of US H1B visas, meant for high-skilled jobs that American tech companies find hard to fill.

Canada will also launch an initiative to recruit more than 1,000 top international researchers as the budget has injected up to $1.7-billion into recruitment measures.

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne told reporters that Canada wants to attract “the best and the brightest”. Ottawa aims to keep new permanent residents at less than 1 per cent of the population beyond 2027, while reducing the number of temporary residents to less than 5 per cent o

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