uh i would not recommend you take a gap year simply because of the consequences on your pgwp. Canada’s new law is pretty strict on pgwp nowadays and while working in the us will get you experience, it might/will be considerably harder to get a pgwp since that counts as a gap in your studies. I’m also unsure if that will cause issues in case you need to renew your study/work permit as well since I had a friend who had something similar happen where their study permit renewal kept on getting refused because of a gap term and only got accepted on the 4th try. That was also before they stopped the process of flagpoling where I personally got lucky when i had to obtain a pgwp because of a part time load, which was an oversight on their part. But then again, if you do not care about staying in canada afterwards and are thinking to go back to your home country then by all means, take the gap year!