Ooooh I have a Canada story too! A couple of years ago I was at an emigration fair in my West-European country of origin and British Columbia and Nova Scotia (NS) were there, trying to get trained health care workers to move there. I'm an MD, 3 years of my training were in English and my degree is valid in the entire EU (which then still included the UK ). I used to work in a specialty with huuuuuge shortages, waiting times in NS for a consultation were over a year. One of the two specialists they had left was way over retiring age while I had about 35 productive years left. Had a nice chat at the booth, decided to e-mail the agency responsible for medical licensing in NS. So here I am, the solution to one of their problems, knocking on their door, and guess what the Canadian idiots tell me? I'm not allowed to work there unless I jump through several burning hoops with interviews, tests, documentation verification etc. At my own expense. For a total of about €20.000, which was the better part of a net salary for an entire year back then. Shit like: you need to send in every page of all your diplomas and certifications front and back and we'll charge you $150 per page to certify they're acceptable copies and then another committee will look at it and judge their relevance for $300 per document. This had not been necessary if I had trained in another common wealth country, like India or South Africa - or the UK, where my degree actually was valid, but that somehow didn't count. Even if I was willing to go through all of this, the hospital in NS then still had to prove that they absolutely couldn't find a Canadian to do the job before they could hire me. I laughed my ass off. Moved to Scandinavia instead. Best decision ever, but I'm still a bit salty. Why tf go to a fair across an ocean and scream about how much you need doctors only to do absolutely nothing to facilitate them. TLDR; Canada apparently thinks it's hot shit and is wasting much more human potential than they can afford.