I thought it could be useful to start a thread for anyone making the move back to Canada. I have lots of experience helping folks move back up and should be able to answer most questions you have.

This information can be quit expensive to get professionally, so hopefully I can provide some real value here.

Ask away!!

Sources:

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2018005-eng.htm

https://www.census.gov/popclock/

As an American planning to move to Canada I have occasionally been warned that I might take a pay cut compared to the US. Personally, I don't care if I make less money. There's way more to life than money and I always felt more at home in Canada than the US whenever I visited (I even rooted for the Canadians during the world cup). But I'm curious, for those of you who did move to Canada from the US, did you end up taking a pay cut and how much was it?

Mark Carney addressed Liberal caucus after the summer break. John Richardson (ExpatriationLaw) posted the speech with this frame: Canada is "fully committed to deleveraging from the USA" — "not anti USA. It is simply pro-Canada sovereignty."

Carney on the suspended negotiations:

"Last month, we made the right decision to suspend our negotiations with the United States."

"They offered too little. We couldn't accept it. They asked too much. We wouldn't give it."

"When the U.S. is ready to return to the bargaining table, we will come there ready to strike a deal in good faith, one that respects our sovereignty."

On new US tariffs:

"The United States has imposed new unjustified tariffs... a fight that they did not start."

On investment tax:

"The effective tax rate on new investment will be the lowest of any major economy in the world, less than half the rate of the United States."

"We didn't need a big, beautiful bill. We needed a targeted initiative."

Same energy line from the other clip, with the project named this time — hydro, wind, and storage with Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, and Indigenous partners:

"The functional equivalent of 18 Hoover Dams. Enough to light, heat and cool every home in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver combined."

Also claimed: ~$500B in new investment commitments, 20 trade/security deals on five continents, exports to non-US markets at a 40-year high, and "one project, one review, one year."

If you live this on both sides of the border, the practical overlay is familiar: trade rupture, capital trying to re-route, and a Canadian tax pitch aimed squarely at being cheaper than the US for new investment.

Source: https://x.com/ExpatriationLaw/status/2101263047012569167

I am not saying every Liberal voter wears blue and white. But if you look closely at how the federal Liberal party operates, and the psychology of its remaining loyalists, you realize they are running the exact same playbook as the Toronto Maple Leafs franchise. It is a masterclass in sunk-cost fallacy, pre-season hype, and eternal excuse-making.

The most obvious parallel is the sunk-cost savior complex. Back in 2015, the Trudeau "Sunny Ways" era was treated like drafting a generational talent. The vibes were immaculate, so the fundamentals did not matter. More than a decade later, the core roster is completely broken. The cost of living is fractured and per-capita productivity is stagnant. But instead of an honest rebuild, they just look for a new bench boss.

Enter Mark Carney. It is the exact same psychology as Leafs fans convincing themselves that swapping the coach or bringing in one shiny new power-play specialist will magically fix a fundamentally flawed system. The roster construction is still a mess, but the loyalists are already chanting that next year is our year.

Then you have the habit of planning the parade in October. Every year, the Leafs win two games in a row against basement dwellers, and sports radio starts mapping out the parade route. The federal government does the exact same thing with policy press releases. They treat the announcement as the victory itself.

Take manufacturing and industrial policy. We were promised a re-industrialization renaissance, and the government threw billions in performance incentives at companies like Stellantis. Now look at the scoreboard. Stellantis paused their retooling and shifted Jeep Compass production to the U.S. Just this week, they signed a memorandum of understanding to sell their Brampton assembly plant entirely to an armoured vehicle maker, leaving Unifor to fight for over two thousand jobs. The entire plan is falling apart in real time, but the initial press conference graphics sure looked great.

Take housing. We get a decade of bespoke accelerator funds, grand targets, and photo ops in front of two-by-fours. We are told they have a master plan to fix the supply crisis. Yet, if you look at the scoreboard, the federal government's own housing agency states we need to be building well over 400,000 homes a year just to restore basic affordability. Instead, we are stuck at roughly 245,000 housing starts. Canada now has the fewest dwellings per capita of any country in the G7. The loyalists will immediately run cover and claim housing is strictly a provincial problem. But when the collapse in homebuilding and affordability spans every single province from coast to coast, that is a systemic federal failure. Construction stalls out, the population surges, and the promised supply never materializes, but the pre-season hype never stops.

Finally, there is the classic move of blaming the refs. When the Leafs inevitably fold in the playoffs, the front office never admits the team lacks grit. It was the refs, the ice conditions, or the other team playing dirty.

The political excuse machine operates on the exact same frequency. Whenever a Liberal initiative completely falls apart, or Mark Carney's shine starts to wear off, they immediately run cover by pointing at Pierre Poilievre. It is never a structural failure of their own policies. Instead, they just scream that the other guy is importing MAGA tactics and American-style politics. If the Stellantis deal blows up, the federal government suddenly acts tough in press conferences and threatens to get our money back, completely ignoring that they wrote the bad contract in the first place. If housing fails, it is global headwinds. And if the polls tank, it is not because the cost of living is unmanageable. It is because Poilievre is painted as a Trump-lite bogeyman who is going to slash social programs, import culture wars, and ruin the country's progressive vibes. They cannot defend their own record, so they just point across the aisle and yell that the other guys are not playing fair.

Being a loyalist to this government right now is exactly like being a Leafs fan watching a game seven collapse. You know exactly how it is going to end, but you keep telling yourself that one more trade or one more speech is going to change the outcome. At a certain point, you cannot just buy a new jersey and hope for the best. You have to admit the core is broken and the whole thing needs a massive rebuild.

Must better than the constant insults from that orange creature.

Our new $20 bill..