Idk, as someone with multiple degrees who has exceeded 6 figures before 30 I am looking south for my future. My career is expanding and I'm at the age where I need to stop renting and think longterm. If I stay in Canada I have maybe 3 choices of where I can live that supports the sort of companies I work for (and they barely do). These cities have massively overpriced homes, minimal investment in any sort of industries, and I still need to deal with horrendous winter for 7 months of the year. I can move south where the weather is nicer, the houses are more affordable, and I can pick from a dozen or more cities to work. The free Healthcare and social net is obviously a huge draw, but most tech companies/startups offer enough benefits to match the government programs in Canada anyways. Also, I can simply stay a dual citizen and keep my parents place which will always give me a fallback if something happens while they spend their winters in the desert/Arizona.

I've tried to stick around because I love this country, but they haven't done shit to try and grow over the last few decades. Every industry (Oil, Automotive, tech) has been a spoke off the US hub of operations for ages without any attempts to build its own foundations to expand in Canada independently. I just don't want to sit around trying to start a family or build my future while a bunch of boomers and politicians squeeze short term profit by selling off the resources, flip-flopping real estate, and ignoring what it will look like when I'm their age.

It's also not like they were unable to do anything, Norway had the same size oil reserves as Alberta except they took advantage of being a social progressive country and they crown corped their oil. They have a trillion dollar reserve fund to reinvest, meanwhile here in Alberta we watch the vast majority of the wealth leave with no planning for the longterm so long as a few people get their cut on the way out. The government could have capitalized on our huge nickel reserves, massive clean energy supply, declining auto manufacturing, and pushed for a huge EV automotive expansion while the US was delayed by the big 3 but instead we waited until the US FINALLY got on board and then used it as a chance to pull even more manufacturing out of Canada. . .