As a skills shortage worsens every year, thousands of qualified workers have been sidelined by bureaucratic inertia and bogus requirements that were imposed in a different age
The institutionalized stupidity by which foreign credentials are handled across Canada conjures images of regulatory bodies that have been guarding occupational credentials against outsiders for decades and are determined to carry on.
After canvassing virtually every group involved in or affected by the system, he said “not a single person” defended the current system.It looks like it’s the way it is simply because that’s the way it’s always been. It will create yet another bureaucracy, but this one is designed to ride herd on the authorities in charge of credentials, to ensure their assessments are fair and efficient. The new superintendent will have powers to force action if the bodies overseeing 29 professions don’t measure up.
Mercier said he talked to a tradesperson trained elsewhere who spent up to two years refreshing a website to see if their application had been accepted.Premier David Eby said B.C. has many unfair processes that force people to go through “incredibly complex, contradictory, hard-to-understand, expensive repetitive processes that are frustrating and ultimately cause people to give up. …Eby said a similar push in health care has brought 450 internationally trained nurses to B.C.
Internationally trained professionals trying to continue their careers in B.C. find that “despite their many, many years of international experience and education in their field, their ability to practise their profession is severely limited, or not allowed at all.”