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Originally Posted by Locke
I'm always surprised by people who are against immigration. It just seems counter-productive to me.
We shouldnt be hampering immigration we should be finding reasonable methods to bridge skills that immigrants had in their home countries with our standards.
I worked at Greyhound and the security guy swinging a flashlight was an ear/nose/throat surgeon in Pakistan.
He cant have been complete crap at it.
We need a way to take these people, determine their level of competency compared to our standard and then have an expedited method to cover the gap.
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This is part of the disconnect of the Canadian immigration system and it has been happening for years.
The issue you identified is largely up to the professional bodies. For doctors in particular, if they immigrate to Canada, unless they are from a few specific countries, they will likely never perform a surgery in their lives again.
Even if you were a surgeon in your home country, the Canadian bridging program only allows you to become a GP and you can only start it in Canada (unsure if this has changed recently in the last few years, but it was always been like this). If you became a GP, you could then try to become a surgeon just like any other GP through the residency program, but your previous experience counts for nothing.
So it would take years for any specific specialization, the amount of new immigrants who would opt to do a full surgical residency is next to none.