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Taxes are not the issue here. While, yes we do play a lot in taxes, the problem is that Canada is not recognizing the professional qualifications of many immigrants.
Many professional people come here and find they can't get work because the government doesn't recognize their qualifications. So, in order to work in their field the government tells them the only way they can do that is to go back to school and requalify. Well for many of them that's not an option because they can't afford to go back to school, forcing them to take low paying jobs, which in turn means they can't provide for their families.
For examply, my dentist is from Russia. She was a medical doctor there. when she immigrated to Canada they told her she would have to go back to med school in order practice medicine in this country. She couldn't see the point of that. Spending 4 years retraining and all that money. She decidided to go to dental school. Smart choice, she's making more money as a dentist then she ever would as a doctor in this country.
On the other side of that, my friend's mother was a mechanical engineer in Poland. She was told that she'd have to go back to school. She couldn't go back to school because she didn't have the money. She now works as a cleaning lady.
I don't what the solution is. Maybe refuse entry to unqalified people. Or offer some incentives for them to go back and retrain so that they can work in their fields. Isn't that way they were allowed to immigrate. Because they held a specialized skill?
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