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Why? If some individuals move it can still be a brain drain.

And some individuals have not. Different people have different preferences.

It's not hard logic. People have preferences and there are tipping points where people's behaviour will change. Depends on the individual's preferences.

No it doesn't. The scientific method does not tell people what to do. It doesn't tell me that I shouldn't take a gun and shoot myself right now. Stop disrespecting the scientific method by misrepresenting it.

For a finite resource, the socially optimal thing to do is extract if following Hotelling's rule, plus externalities of course. This was demonstrated in 1931. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling's_rule

If an apple costs $2 and a banana costs $1, I might choose to buy bananas. But if apples now cost $1.95, I might choose to buy apples instead. There are many costs of moving. Cultural, emotion, plus traveling costs.

msj, your entire argument is nonsense. Have you ever heard of the straw that broken the camel's back? A small change in the tax system can be enough for a lot of people to decide to change their decisions.

Hey, let's throw Australia into this discussion. What advantages does Canada have over Australia? Life expectancy: Australia: 82 years, Canada: 81 years GDP per capita (PPP): Australia: 46,550, Canada: 44,967 Gini Coefficient: Australia: 0.33, Canada: 0.32 (Okay, Canada has a slightly lower gini coefficient)

Australia ranks second in HDI after Norway.

USA now outranks Canada on HDI. Canada is falling behind.

Maybe Canada will experience one soon?

Yes. I don't understand their obsession with a 'certain kind of movie'. Personally, I don't care about the oscars, no idea why so many people do. Maybe we should replace the oscars with a computer algorithm that determines the best movie based upon a large number of online metrics. Maybe use principle component analysis or something. I'm sure if you got a bunch of computer programmers to work on it for a bit they would come up with something decent. Maybe google can do it.

Jews disproportionately get Nobel Prizes. Must be Jew Privilege. Asians disproportionately get into good universities like Berkeley. Must be Asian Privilege. Blacks disproportionately get into the NBA. Must be Black Privilege. Etc.

Not yet... But the ideology that leads to ISIS, Al Queda, Boko Haram, Al Shabab and others is spreading. Fortunately, Turkey and Saudi Arabia are our wonderful allies, who can do no wrong.

Why just a son? Why not a daughter? It is 2016 after all. Or are you saying you don't support gender equality when it comes to conscription?

That would be the correct thing to do.

Oh come on. Harper was one of the biggest advocates for funding Islamists in Syria in order to fight a proxy war against Russia. Plenty of blame lies on Canada.

Russia is not our ally, but Saudi Arabia is... Makes perfect sense... And you mean the NATO funded allies of ISIS? Maybe we shouldn't have funded wahhabist groups in order to fight a proxy war against Russia.

I find it interesting that so many demonize O'Leary as immoral or uncaring, but he is one of the few people showing concern about young people being unable to find proper employment (including people with STEM backgrounds). From my perspective, the Ontario government is concentrating on making energy prices absurdly high and driving out manufacturing, tech and other industries, increasing debt and thus getting credit downgrades, banning internships, creating a bloated public service and spending money inefficiently; the Alberta government is concentrating on shutting down the main industry in that province, hiking corporate taxes and royalties, increasing debt and the public service, thus getting credit downgrades, and building 'feminism' in Alberta; the Quebec government is as always focused on having an inefficient tax structure, thus being a drain on everyone to the west of them, and being language fascists that go around trying to ban words like pasta; and the Federal government is focused on partying overseas, giving billions of dollars away to other countries, importing large amounts of refugees without thinking about the consequences or how to do it, blocking oil exports at every possibility, such as banning west coast oil tankers, ignoring problems from ISIS to the collapsing dollar while proclaiming Sunny Ways, hiring people based on what is between their legs and where their ancestors came from as opposed to merit, not supporting the tpp yet, and spending mass amounts of money under the guise of 'infrastructure spending' which will be poorly thought out and cause credit downgrades. I've been thinking about leaving Canada for years, or at least going West (until the recent events in the West). If not due to the economic situation then due to other reasons such as that anti-freedom of speech culture and the discrimination against men. My current plan is to emigrate to either the USA or Australia, although doing that requires money and a job when I get there, but I have a plan to do so and leave this insane asylum of a country eventually. I'm sick of being in a limbo state between poor paying part time work and unemployment, how many more years is it supposed to last for? Would be nice to take an internship but I'm too poor and don't have supportive parents unlike most millennials that I know of. Even if I apply for a job at a freaking grocery store, they now require you go online and fill out a bunch of forms to ensure that you are 'diverse' enough. These downturns and lack of opportunity primarily affect graduating cohorts that are trying to enter the job market, but Trudeau doesn't care about us, only about the people who are married, already have a car, a house, good jobs, 'middle class', etc. I don't have a car or a smart phone, I don't take vacations, I don't go to movies, all I do with my money is buy food (ramen noodles are cheap) and pay rent. Dismiss concerns about creating an environment where young skilled people leave if you want, especially right before a demographic collapse. Argentina used to be a rich country 100 years ago, then due to government it became a poor country and eventually defaulted on its debt; that's the path Canada is currently on. Now that I think about it, I would have been better off doing a gender studies degree as opposed to doing things like maths, physics and economics. Because then I would be able to apply to one of those 6 figure jobs to build 'feminism' that Notley is creating. Though to do that I would have to join the cult of 'Social Justice' which is spreading through society like a cancer.

The Baltic States aren't a thing.

It's not about 'being more likely to spend money', I never said that. It's about the utility of an additional dollar. Utility maximizing individuals will tend to spend their initial income on essentials and then later income on things that give less and less marginal utility.

When one is poor, generally the increase in utility that one gains from an additional dollar is greater than if one is rich. An additional dollar for a poor person can go towards food, clothing, shelter, etc. where as an additional dollar for a rich person is more limited in what it can go towards (as the rich person already has essentials paid for) so might go to a vacation in Rome or a big screen TV.

Both the Canadian and the US systems suck. European systems are better.