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TORONTO—Canada’s technology sector, which has long struggled to compete with sunny Silicon Valley, is seizing on the U.S.’s hardening stance on immigration in a bid to lure top talent.

The pitch: Come to Canada, where there are cosmopolitan cities, affordable health care and, most important, more certainty around work permits and entrance requirements that many executives feel is lacking under the Trump administration.

Image: Canada is courting tech workers amid deepening worries about U.S. immigration policies. Above, celebrations in honor of Canada Day in early July. PHOTO: ZUMA PRESS