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Re-engineering the Startup Visa: Canada’s economic challenges require more global entrepreneurs and investors

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Canada is a nation of immigrants, and newcomers have always been entrepreneurial.

Immigrant entrepreneurs create more jobs, export more goods and services, develop more intellectual property and invest more in R&D.

The SuV aimed to attract experienced, ambitious business leaders ready to launch successful, scalable businesses.

But the program has been ground down by bureaucracy, uncertainty, absurdly long processing times and rampant abuse.

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informal

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English

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64

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short-lived

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