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Technology and industry minister Navdeep Bains has met with tech leaders multiple times and Trudeau has posed for photo shoots in the offices of Shopify Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google. A fast-track program to cut visa wait times for key technology workers to two weeks was announced in response to what the industry said was its most pressing problem — luring high-skilled executives from Silicon Valley or further abroad before other countries can snatch them up. That’s supposed to launch in June.

But there’s still more that can be done, the industry argues. Here are some key ideas from players in the space.

The Startup CEO

Huda Idrees, founder and CEO of medical records startup Dot HealthIdea: Keep the talent you have.

Idrees came to Canada from Saudi Arabia as an international student and says she’s seen as many as 75 percent of her fellow engineering students, especially international ones, leave for the U.S. That’s in large part because of how long it takes to transition from a student visa to a permanent resident, she said. Idrees was working at tech companies before she graduated, already paying taxes, but those years didn’t count towards her application for permanent residency, she said.

“Canada just really misses out on really great Canadian-educated talent that comes here,” she said by phone. “We don’t do enough to keep them here.”

The Veteran CEO

Annette Verschuren, CEO of energy storage company NRStor Inc., former CEO of Home Depot Canada Inc.Idea: Make some procurement Canadian.