The U.S. produces more proven scale-stage leaders than Canada does.
That is not patriotic heresy. It is math.
So let’s stop pretending the answer is to complain about brain drain while ignoring a live opportunity to recruit from the deepest operator pool in the world.
The tariff war has created uncertainty. Uncertainty creates executive movement. Executive movement creates access.
That means Canadian firms can now recruit serious American operators without relocation, visa friction, or years of delay.
This is leadership arbitrage.
And most companies will miss it because they still treat recruiting as an HR function instead of a growth weapon.
That thinking is exactly why some firms scale and others stall.
Full article here:
https://perrymartel.com/tariff-war-talent-window-canadian-ceos/
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