| The Selfish Nation Canada to accept up to 10,000 more skilled workers Welcome mat out for 'best and brightest' Ottawa Citizen, November 4, 2011 The Harper Conservatives want to make attracting skilled immigrants a priority. For Canada this is a good thing, but what about the countries that will have to do without the skill labour pilfered by one of the richest country in the world; a country that would steal from the poorest because it is cheaper than investing in its own citizens. It's all wrapped up in sanctimonious self-righteousness about helping others when it’s all about helping yourself. The last time around it was doctors, before that it was unskilled labour, now it’s engineers, technicians and doctors. It’s always more with Canada isn’t it? More of something somebody else has and that they need. Canada has saved nearly $400-million by poaching doctors from Africa, while the African countries that trained those doctors have lost billions of dollars as a result of medical migration. Globe and Mail, Nov.25,2011 It's not that I am not grateful, after all, it was a Nigerian-born doctor who correctly diagnosed my wife's affliction (read Canadian vs. American Health Care) and who remains responsible for her treatment, but it's not right. This parasitic behaviour is not only draining resources, both in people and money, but killing people over there and threatening the very long-term viability of some of the countries Canada steals from. Canada exports death in small amounts every day: the doctor that is enticed to come to Canada who is not available to save lives in his native country; the engineer, the technician who has, or will be lured to come to Canada, and will not be around to ensure the safe construction of a building, a bridge or the safe operation of industrial machinery … you get the idea. It is easy to forget that Canada was once a self-reliant, proud nation which fought in two world wars, and did the big nation-building things that once defined us as a people, a people that would not risk the life of the planet for profit, to became, in the words of fictitious economist Diane Francis Smith: Freddy the Freeloading Country. Bernard Payeur
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