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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
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.
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Yes...and in general people can't see past that. Especially in Alberta, conservatives are always concerned about their money. Even if the professional bodies made re-certification easier and shorter, people would complain that 'these people' are now clogging up the system whereas they are not at the moment.
"These people are here to clog up healthcare, old age, schools etccc. I'm paying for all this." Not realizing that the immigrant is pumping their gas.
I'm a center-left person probably. I accept and even support my money going to things that don't directly effect me for the betterment of society. But I come across conservatives in Calgary that won't pay a penny for anything outside of their inner circle. No new taxes, no new bridges, no new transit, no new schools because they don't use any of them.
and no new immigrants because they cost money. Muslims and their 5 kids especially.