This is part 10 of The Logic’s in-depth series exploring how Canada is faring in the global competition for tech talent, as economies reopen and companies and governments jockey for advantage in a remote-work world. Read the rest of the series here.
OTTAWA — Sam Pasupalak describes it as “mission impossible.” In the early 2010s, he and his co-founders were trying to recruit machine-learning specialists for their AI startup, Maluuba, but “Google and Microsoft and Facebook could pay at least five times what I [was] able to pay,” he recalls.
A decade on, Canada has many more such workers—but it also has even more startups, scale-ups, large corporations and multinationals seeking to employ them.
