This is a problem we’ve had for something like 20 years. It’s not the fault of any one leader, but pretty much all of them for decades. I remember reading an article about immigrant doctors working as taxi drivers in the early 2000s, yet things have only gotten worse.
While I do think that there are issues that a certification gained in one country does not equate to one in another, if we’re working so hard to bring in such professionals, we should also set up systems to update their certifications to local standards. It makes no sense for a doctor to work a decade doing minimum wage when they could go through a six month recertification course then work at a local hospital instead.
Maybe it’s not that easy, but it makes no sense that such a thing is happening when we’ve had a shortage in such fields for decades. And it’s not like money is an issue. These people working high paying jobs would increase the government’s tax revenue by a massive margin, and such recertification wouldn’t even risk they emigrating out since the new certifications would only be good in Canada in the first place.
Yeah, the cab driver that picked me up from the airport was some sort of agricultural engineer in India, his specialization was water management systems integrated to flow/volume/ scheduling software and logic circuits. To get the most growth for least amount of water.
There should be equivalency testing.
And based off of my Indian friends comments, there should be a verification system…because they say many things in India are bought with bribery, which can include fake accreditation papers.
This is a problem we’ve had for something like 20 years. It’s not the fault of any one leader, but pretty much all of them for decades. I remember reading an article about immigrant doctors working as taxi drivers in the early 2000s, yet things have only gotten worse.
While I do think that there are issues that a certification gained in one country does not equate to one in another, if we’re working so hard to bring in such professionals, we should also set up systems to update their certifications to local standards. It makes no sense for a doctor to work a decade doing minimum wage when they could go through a six month recertification course then work at a local hospital instead.
Maybe it’s not that easy, but it makes no sense that such a thing is happening when we’ve had a shortage in such fields for decades. And it’s not like money is an issue. These people working high paying jobs would increase the government’s tax revenue by a massive margin, and such recertification wouldn’t even risk they emigrating out since the new certifications would only be good in Canada in the first place.
Yeah, the cab driver that picked me up from the airport was some sort of agricultural engineer in India, his specialization was water management systems integrated to flow/volume/ scheduling software and logic circuits. To get the most growth for least amount of water.
There should be equivalency testing.
And based off of my Indian friends comments, there should be a verification system…because they say many things in India are bought with bribery, which can include fake accreditation papers.