Canada is not an open paradise for all who want to come here.

It is true, Canada is not an open paradise for all who want to come here.

The country is welcoming. PRs are given out like crazy.

The problem is that Canada - the government, not the country or the people - has failed new Canadians by creating an immigration scheme that rewards you for your education and experience but does not tell you that cracking the job market is another story.

However, it should not be a surprise to anyone who has put in the research in studying the job market, that it is a tough nut to crack.

Canada, the government, has not properly linked with professional organizations to understand what it takes to evaluate credentials and achieve equivalency.

Look at this graphic from the Toronto Fairness Comissioner’s office that compares Canadian-trained to foreign trained professions with respect to working at or above ones training.

You can see 2 things: first, foreign trained individuals are less successful in finding jobs at or above their skill level. But then look again at Canadian trained, no 100% in any of these job categories.

It is true that the Canadian employment environment is far more parochial than other countries including the US.

There needs to be far more transparency regarding employment.

Physicians from the U.K. should not have barriers to practice. Outer Mongolia. That is a whole other story.

I cannot understand why new Canadians from European countries face the same barriers to employment as new Canadians from countries that are not as well developed and that have less robust educational systems.

As for people who chime in and say Canada is a bad place to emigrate to because it has has shitty weather, absolutely, it is not Hawaii, so fucking get over it. It should not be a surprise. Suck it up or don’t come.

Look, the current immigration scheme is flawed. Intelligent Canadians will stipulate to that.

But our immigration scheme also rewards people who have figured out if they get a study visa and undertake a Canadian degree program you can actually apply and get your PR in a year and a half or two years and you have a Canadian degree and can get a job.

Look at all the questions on Quora asking if educational institution X is good. People are studying at fucking shit ass career colleges because they are getting jobs.

So one door opens while another is shut.

If I were to consider emigrating somewhere and that place did not recognize my education and experience and I knew I could not get a job without going back to school, unless I was desperate, that country can go fuck itself.

If I was desperate to seek a new life, I would move heaven and earth to do whatever I had to do to get a job.

I know, it's easy for me to say this because I am Canadian and I have not had to face the same barriers as new Canadians do.

But, that said, I busted my ass to get where I am today.

I moved to fucking Saskatchewan, a place I never, ever thought I would live in this lifetime or the next.

I took a 50 % pay cut from what I was making in the place I left to move to Saskatchewan.

50 fucking percent.

-50 C windchill last week by the way.

I took a salary that was far below what I was accustomed to and over a 12 year period I quadrupled it with hard work and thinking outside of the box (damn I hate that term but it is appropriate).

On the way to where I am, at one point, I gave up a lucrative practice to go back to school for 2 years to specialize in the only specialty areas that pays less than a generalist. I gave up $200 k plus I paid $50 k US for the privledge of doing that.

I built that back up over time.

I did shitloads of pro bono work to build a network of contacts that eventually paid off.

Canada is still a place of opportunity if you have a vision and are not afraid of hard work.

But I have zero empathy for anyone who whines about poor me, nobody wants to give me a job at the level I am used to.

I have a modicum of empathy for people who are having a hard go of it but zero sympathy.

Why no sympathy?

Because sympathy is between shit and syphylis on the dictionary.