Foreign doctors to be fast-tracked to permanent residence in bid to keep them in the country

[border_humper]

https://archive.is/2025.12.08-191014/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-foreign-doctors-permanent-residence-health-care-gaps-pathway/

Foreign doctors are to be offered a fast track to permanent residency in a bid to persuade more medical professionals to stay and work across Canada.
The announcement Monday by Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab of a new pathway to permanent residency is designed to increase the number of family doctors in Canada and cut wait times to see specialists and surgeons.
It will be opened next year for foreign physicians who have worked in Canada for more than a year over the past three years.
Provinces and territories will also be given the power to nominate a total of 5,000 health care professionals for fast-tracking in a bid to fill local gaps in medical services.
Foreign doctors who have been offered jobs will have their work permits processed within 14 days so they can start work within weeks.
Speaking in Toronto, Ms. Diab said “provinces and territories are best placed to determine where their pressures are.”
She said staff shortages have led to “strain in our emergency rooms” and on the front line.
The new measures would apply to family doctors as well as surgeons and specialists, including oncologists, cardiologists and gynecologists, as well as people working in clinical and laboratory medicine.
Maggie Chi, the parliamentary secretary to Minister of Health Marjorie Michel, said the pathway to permanent residency will help plug staffing gaps.
Last year, about 5.7 million Canadian adults and 765,000 children and youth reported not having a regular health care provider.
The responsibility for recognizing foreign medical credentials and licensing them to work in Canada lies with the provinces and territories.
Health care professionals from abroad have complained for years that getting qualified to work in Canada is fraught and full of obstacles and delays.
Margot Burnell, president of the Canadian Medical Association, said Canada is short about 23,000 family physicians. She has called for health care work force planning at a national level and the creation of one coherent, sustainable system, including addressing immigration and training.

Weird, I thought there was an army of Trump-hating docs relocating from the States. Oh well, I’m sure these other international pros will be fully vetted and amazing professionals.

 

[d01tg0d0wn]

Great more Somalis and Jeets

Cue the meme "i am your doctor now"

 

[Hirudinea]

https://archive.is/2025.12.08-191014/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-foreign-doctors-permanent-residence-health-care-gaps-pathway/

Weird, I thought there was an army of Trump-hating docs relocating from the States. Oh well, I’m sure these other international pros will be fully vetted and amazing professionals.

border_humper
Those American docs would be foreign, but I'm sure we all know what kind of foreign doctors they're talking about.

 

[brutana_dilewski]

I told the foreign doctor that it was a hard lump.
I also told him that it didn't feel very nice.

And the foreign doctor gave me this advice:

He said

oo ee oo ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang

 

[RightOfSask]

That's still better than the regular advice foreign doctors give you. The regular advice would be to sexually assault you.

 

[brutana_dilewski]

lets hope my next doctor is a female

 

[Hirudinea]

@brutana_dilewski

The doctor will see you now.

 

[Hirudinea]

Oh they do that too, they are multidisciplinarian.

 

[border_humper]

@Hirudinea She slimmed down, good for her.

 

[brutana_dilewski]

@Hirudinea Give me a 26 of liquid courage, no problem.

 

[ChevChelios]

@border_humper: Is that the chick from "Precious"? She got married to a fairly normal-looking white guy and had a kid, which just goes to show how far fame can carry you from your origins

 

[border_humper]

@ChevChelios Seems she married a Frankel. Must have been some hora dance!

 

[Hirudinea]

@border_humper

Can you get a back hoe in a hall?

 

[censorthisss]

Respect their ways of knowing, bigot!

 

[Hirudinea]

CBC had entered the chat.

 

[ovarieasy]

While still restricting available domestic enrollment and giving preference to underachieving brownoids.
Don't get sick.

 

[TOPDAWG]

Do I trust a foreign Doctor who may try to practice voodoo on me or canadian-born doctor who told us to get a shot with multiple boosters with no testing it's a hard call.

I'm honestly leaning towards the voodoo.

 

[ChevChelios]

True enough, at least someone shaking a stick with feathers over your head while doing some rhythmic tribal chanting wouldn't hurt you (unless you're an albino)

 

[d01tg0d0wn]

Do white people who cant tan count as an Albino?

 

[RightOfSask]

@d01tg0d0wn
Silly question. They are probably red heads and therefore have no soul and aren't even considered people.

 

[d01tg0d0wn]

@RightOfSask my wife and kids arent red heads and yet they can not tan thanks to some chromosome phenotype shenanigans that over road my awesome tanning trait

In summer i tan so well that you would opt to send me back cause i get darker then some if not most of the dirty mmmmgrants

 

[ChevChelios]

@d01tg0d0wn: I have red-haired people in my family but I'm one of those dark-haired Celtic aborigine types and, although I'm allergic to temperatures over 23 C, I did once develop a very dark tan after hiking in the hills of Ireland one summer back in the 90s -- when I returned to Toronto and greeted Mrs. Chev at the airport she initially thought I was a pajeet

 

[Chobes]

Did Canada seemingly stop training doctors 30 years ago? The only white Canadian doctors left are all retiring and replaced by Dr Mutumbo *click click

 

[ayn_rands_ghost]

I do not think they really created more spaces to train doctors and many go to UK, USA etc to train and if they want to come back to work in Canada is is a huge pain in the ass with all the red tape and rigmarole.

I would also say 40 years ago when I was 18 I was asking why Canada never seems to invest in its own people and would rather bring in foreigners. Even back then there was discrimination against Caucasian Canadians, especially male.