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The 70% figure is from this study, and that is specifically for software engineering grads, not computer engineering or computer science.
https://brocku.ca/social-sciences/politi...-Drain.pdf

Here are their migration rates (the data is from 2015-16), showing 40% migration rates for the technical programs:



One additional thing to note is that somewhere close to 40% of the students in those programs are foreign students. How many of those leaving are foreign students is unknown, but the number of grads remaining in Canada is probably not so much different than the number of Canadian students enrolling in the programs.

Migration to the US has always been significant. I read about engineer migration to the US 100 years ago in a book.

I used to be Director of SE at Waterloo and the numbers are consistent with my surveys. I obviously did not survey non-SE students, so I can't say anything about that. I think that one confounder here is that the SE number might be dominated by Waterloo, while the CS and CE numbers less so. I wouldn't be surprised if the Waterloo CE and CS numbers were higher than the quoted number.

SE and CE at Waterloo are 90% domestic students. I don't have the number for CS.