The province introduced legislation expected to add skilled workers to the labour force by reducing barriers for internationally trained workers from over two dozen professions.
The B.C. government will introduce new legislation to speed up and simplify the process for internationally trained professionals to have their certifications recognized so they can work in the province. Richard Zussman reports. – Oct 10, 2023
“We have many unfair processes that force new arrivals to British Columbia to go through incredibly complex, contradictory, hard-to-understand, expensive, repetitive processes that are frustrating and ultimately cause people to give up and work in a field that they’re not trained in,” the premier said during a news conference.
The act builds on work the B.C. government has been doing to reduce barriers for internationally trained health-care workers, he added.“More than 500 internationally educated doctors have gone through our expedited process with the College of Physicians to be able to start work, and we have nearly 3,000 more nurses that are already applying to come through that process as well.”
“What he told me was, ‘My 20 years in Iran was not worth one single day in Canada,'” the minister said.Story continues below advertisement
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