Yes, the wage gap is a huge problem for retaining highly skilled or highly educated Canadians who can make substantially more in the US for the same job. For some reasons Canadians seem to be very thin skinned about the subject and love to deny reality.
Even basic jobs like working at McDonald's and picking up garbage pay way, way more down there. Canadians love to point at places near the Mississippi Delta that have been economically underdeveloped for centuries, but compare wages in Calgary to wages in major cities in most of the USA and there is a huge wage gap.
$25 US is $34.53 Canadian. Our dollar is worth so much less, and taxes here are mostly higher. Flight attendants for Air Canada are the same as the pilots, they know exactly how underpaid they are because they mingle and talk to flight attendants in the USA all the time. They know that they are doing the same jobs for half the money, and they also know that the airlines in Canada are just keeping a bigger piece of the pie.
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