XPost: can.general, can.politics   
   From: sharx35@hotmail.com   
      
   "cognomen@domus.ca"  wrote in message   
   news:T0Myn.56293$Ht4.34384@newsfe20.iad...   
   > "Ed"  wrote   
   >> I approve of Harper's changes to the immigration laws that  will   
   >> hopefully keep skilled engineers and even physicians   
   >>  who come here from developing nations like India or countries like   
   >> Russia and  the former eastern bloc, from driving   
   >>  taxi cabs for a living because their credentials aren't recognized.   
   >   
   > Do you think that "credentials" from a foreign country should be   
   > automatically accepted as being at par with Canadian standards of medical   
   > learning?   
   >   
   >> The CMA, Canadian Medical Association (the physicians union) has been a   
   >> barrier when it comes to that, and the   
   >> standards held by engineers in nations that are not accepted here should   
   >> be evaluated on their   
   >> own merits, not just turned down because the degrees and experience they   
   >> hold are not from here.   
   >   
   > Again, are the standards in India or Pakistan or China equivalent to   
   > Canadian medical education standards?  Also, are those doctors from those   
   > countries able to speak ENGLISH so they can communicate with the majority   
   > of patients they would be treating?   
   >   
   >> We do need immigration.  But well educated and experienced people should   
   >> not be driving taxi cabs once they   
   >>  immigrate here.   They also belong at the front of the line.    Most   
   >> immigrants do make well, it's a fallacy that they   
   >>  don't.   But the better educated they are, the better the chance of   
   >> them contributing to Canada.   
   >   
   > Your "we do need immigration" theory has had a whole lot of holes punched   
   > in it time and time again.  And "most immigrants" are NOT a plus for the   
   > Canadian economy - and thus Canada as a whole.  Those facts have come out   
   > from Stats Canada many times.  The 'educated' immigrants to Canada are in   
   > the minority.  They bring with them their elderly, their sick, and their   
   > many non-contributing relations.   
   >   
   > When Harper stops watching his own ass and starts to think about the   
   > betterment of Canada, he would start to restrict the import of immigrants   
   > simply because they're related to the few educated ones that come in.   
   > Until then, he's simply perpetuated the harm done by the Liberals before   
   > him - but in even greater numbers.   
      
      
   Good points.  A degree at a foreign college should NOT be automatically   
   granted the Canadian equivalent, vis a vis professional qualification.   
   Some humanity should be a factor....all associated family members should be   
   LEGALLY SPONSORED--the sponsor TOTALLY responsible for their education,   
   language instruction, health care, food, clothing etc.   
      
      
      
      
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