Could not agree more. I'm a Canadian living in the US right now so I've effectively contributed to Canada's brain drain, but this is a unique opportunity for them to make some moves to try to turn it around a bit.
I'm on a TN, as are many of my co-workers. Trump's campaign website did not say anything about Canadian NAFTA work permit holders. We aren't too worried, but we also need know that a Canadian subsidiary + J-1 isn't hard to get if we really have to go that way.
I'm not on TN but I have used it in the past. If Trump ends NAFTA I would imagine the TN visa would go with it since it's part of NAFTA. I'm sure it would disrupt a lot of lives.
If you disagree with me how about you talk about it like an adult instead of degrading this conversation into shitposting?
Trump is not Mitt Romney. If Romney had have won in 2012, not much would be different in all likelihood. In the case of Trump the guy is so unpredictable that it's difficult to know what - if anything - he's going to do. I don't see why other countries shouldn't take advantage of that unpredictability.
Europe is having a lot of issues integrating their own intra-continental migration (Poles, Hungary, Romania, etc.), let alone American immigration. This is a privileged position that poor immigrants don't have. It's a bit ironic.
I would be offering to pay for their relocation costs if I were them.