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Ilya Brotzky

Oct 8, 2026

9:34
Do you think Canada's over-corrected on immigration so far?
9:37
Yeah, especially on the skilled labor side.
9:39
Um, there's, they're a lot more stringent as to which companies can hire engineers from abroad.
9:45
I'll give you a specific example.
9:47
One of our clients, um, Fintech from Toronto raised around eleven million dollars in funding.
9:52
They almost got a refusal.
9:53
We had to do a lot of, you know, asking politely and, uh, pleading our case for, with the officer, but they almost got a, a LMA refused, uh, for a senior engineer, hundred and forty thousand dollar a year salary, Ruby on Rails developer, ten years experience.

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