Canada is exporting its highest earners to the United States. This finding, highlighted in a recent Hub analysis on Canada’s GDP per capita crisis, including its causes and manifestations, generated substantial discussion and debate over the past week. That discussion, coupled with a new article from The Economist entitled “Westerners are fleeing their countries in record numbers,” prompted a revisit of Canada’s brain drain. The numbers The Economist’s analysis highlights record emigration from Western countries. Roughly 4 million people left 31 Western nations in 2024, up 20 percent from pre-pandemic levels. Canada’s departures in the third quarter of 2025 were 34 percent higher than six years earlier. Canadian net emigration —a series Statistics Canada maintains for long-term consistency due to methodological changes to the gross numbers—reached 65,372 in 2024-25, the highest level in the 50-year data series.…