THE MIGRATION - The $36.6 Billion Digital Extraction: How US Platforms Harvest Canadian Data, Revenue, and Talent Without Building a Single Factory
Canada’s Invisible Branch-Plant Economy
The physical branch-plant economy extracts $45B/year in profit repatriation. The RIPPLE stress-test reveals a second extraction layer: $36.6B/year in digital extraction — platform revenue, data value, compute rental, and AI talent drain — that leaves Canada without building a single factory.