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Jack Mintz: Best way to keep Canadians from leaving? Make Canada better

Blocking Canadians from leaving or taxing them when they do are not how a free and democratic society should address economic discontent

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I want to link two issues that are troubling Canadians these days: the brain drain and Alberta’s referendum on separating from Canada. Both are about people exiting a country.

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In the case of the brain drain, it’s mainly the young and old who decide to move elsewhere so they can improve their standard of living. With separation, a majority of voters decide they need to secede to be successful, which happened with Singapore separating from Malaysia, Norway from........

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