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Canada has been looking outside its borders to fill a critical nurse shortage, but recruitment efforts are leaving Ghana’s hospitals short-staffed. Now Ghana’s nurse association says Canada should foot the bill for their training.
The billionaires in this country won’t even pay enough taxes to train our own nurses, are they really going to pay another country?
It’s amazing how we twist our logic around it all … a first world country is draining the resources of a third world country to save money and keep billionaires from paying taxes
Canada is basically sucking on lives of the Ghanaians who already have very little or nothing, just to make our lives and the lives of our wealthy class easier.
It’s absolutely sickening.
Apparently globalization is a double-edged sword.
Pretty shitty move by the provinces to steal a poorer nation’s medical staff to fill their shortages.
Immigration is entirely a federal matter. The provinces may utilize these nurses once they are here, and reasonably so, but the provinces do not have the jurisdiction to bring them into Canada. The provinces could not ‘steal’ them even if they wanted nothing more. Only Canada can. Which is also why Ghana is calling on Canada, not the provinces of Canada, to make amends.
Sure. Imagine how bad it is being from a poor country and being offered a lot more money, better work and life conditions. Truly awful.
I said it was shitty for the provinces to do that versus providing more slots in education and higher wages for current medical staff. Instead they steal staff from poor nations and feel no guilt for doing that … which is colonialism at its core.
Yes, that’s a fair point. But even with an investment in better wages, training and more education a critical shortage will take at least a couple years to be mitigated, and a couple years doesn’t seem to be a viable option right now.
versus providing more slots in education
The nurses are wanted now, not years down the line.
and higher wages for current medical staff.
Are you under the impression that current medical staff are working at only partial capacity and more money will see them step up their game? That’s a brutal insult to them.
