Canada's New Budget Aims to Lure U.s. Researchers to Relocate
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Canada's new budget allocates $1.2B to attract US researchers, sparking discussion on what factors influence researcher relocation decisions.
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In my opinion, the only thing that may lure a small number of them is compensation.
If you mean industrial researchers, they need a government or private lab to do their thing. As the US just whacked a number of such labs and related funding, people are a bit more mobile than previously. It might also help that Canada's "just a short hop" away from the US.
For either of these groups, "compensation" is (far?) more than just cash.
Carney seems capable, but has a difficult hand.