It’s unlikely. (Spoken as someone who has purchased a Canadian tech company)
- Canadian work ethic and 100 hour weeks at startups are incompatible.
- Employment regulations place too high a burden on small businesses.
- Shareholder requirements in Canada are too burdensome for high risk opportunities.
- Consumer banking in Canada is exceptional but commercial banking is like dealing with the government – depressing, incompetent, and ignorant.
- The VC community (if you want to call it that) is not competent in tech – better in mining and resources.
- The university system has no peer to California or NY/Boston
- Canada lacks sufficient population to produce sufficient engineers, capable of taking sufficient risks. At present it takes 500M people in a market to produce competitive intellectual work products at the level of global powers.
https://www.quora.com/Can-Vancouver-BC-become-a-new-Silicon-Valley