Anybody thinking part of the problem is how we have structed things here in Canada? Probably why hard working trades people who know how to work and know how to sell can make more than family Dr's and can approach some specialists?
Attracting and graduating trades people across the board is 100% vital to our economy and needs to be accelerated, waiting a few days for a plumber or HVAC or whomever really isn't the situation. It's how a lack of skilled labour hit's the economy and adds time, cost, complexity and more. This country has aspirations to triple/quadruple it's annual housing supply in short order. We are going to take homes/condos that are already slapped together quickly in garbage fashion and than proceed to accelerate that. Great!
As for the oncologist shortage and overall shortage of medical professionals in this country, Alberta and Canada as a whole need to wake up and quit the games. Amateur hour is over or at least it should be. I know this is a Alberta thread and the AB Govermnet's past and present have been absolute disasters in this regard, so has the federal government. We need medical dollars spent and we need mass amounts. The Canadian premiers were asking for something around $35-40 billion in NEW EXTRA money, the feds offered 10% of that. Jokers all of them.
Every medical specialist in Canada knows the Toronto God complex that occurs in that city with specialists. If your in Toronto and from there, your ok a lot if times. If your not? Your screwed. Your a specialist who run's multiple departments and top of class in your field in any major city in Canada? Odds are you may qualify for effectively a dishwasher job in your specialty in Toronto, not much more.
I am dating a top oncologist at the moment, one that has such extensive training internationally and in the US on advanced treatments. Treatments so advanced, they are not available in Canada, only G7 nation that doesn't have them. Why? Because Canada is a joke in this regard and it's well known. I am acutely aware of all these issues.
Nothing like getting recruited hard in the US and in Europe for substantially more money from top cancer centers globally, but struggle to get an interview in Calgary/ Red Deer, AB or in small town Ontario. Toronto won't even bother responding.
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