Canada has been making efforts to improve the nursing shortage here for decades, aggressively recruiting in places like the Philippines, India, and South Africa. Over 43,000 internationally-trained nurses were practicing in Canada as of 2022. In that year alone, 5,000 internationally educated nurses entered the field in Canada. That’s hardly zero effort to improve the nursing shortage.
https://www.cihi.ca/en/the-state-of-...-professionals
Recruiting from the U.S. isn’t fruitful, because very few people are willing to uproot their lives to take a big pay-cut in a new country. Will that change under Trump? Maybe a tiny increase in the “there are literally dozens of us” territory.
In the wake of every U.S. election where a Republican wins the white house we get a flurry of stories on both sides of the border about Americans moving to Canada, along with profiles of people who make the move. These stories burnish our national pride. But in raw numbers, it’s always a tiny population.