They do more than this. In Alberta we got a 50% credit on salaries paid if we hired people with oil/gas skills into a non oil/gas company. Think ML engineers who have been dong advanced data science for geologists to find oil coming over to tech startup… and the government pays half their salary for you, which is already cheaper than America. And you get to fully deduct it.

And our government is busy prattling on about putting tariffs on Canadian maple syrup or something…