alt Hacker NewsYou overestimate the willingness of Canadian software engineer employers to pay anything beyond peanuts.
Any competent developer already immediately flees to the US to triple their take-home pay at first chance and Canadian employers are fully aware of this.
I know lots of competent developers in Canada. Some better than any I have yet met in the Bay area. They know they could triple their income by moving to the US, but they have other attachments, priorities, and concerns.
Lots do move to the US too, but it's a filter for ambition, not competence. Don't confuse the two.