B.C. poached more than 140 U.S. health care staff, minister said
By: By Wolfgang Depner The Canadian Press Via Canada's Global News
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B.C. poached more than 140 U.S. health care staff, minister said
British Columbia Health Minister Josie Osborne says the province is "doing very well" in its recruiting drive of health care professionals from the United States, but admits that it will take time to convert that interest into staffing positions.
Osborne says more than 140 health-care workers from the United States — including 80 nurses and 38 doctors — have accepted positions with B.C. health authorities since the launch of its campaign in March 2025.
Osborne, who was speaking at the Union of British Columbia Municipalities' annual convention in Victoria, says the figure "bodes well" for the campaign, which has produced some 1,400 job applications from U.S. health workers.
The campaign included a digital advertising blitz launched in June at an estimated cost of $5 million aimed at health-care workers in the states of Washington, Oregon and California.
Osborne says it is not surprising that many U.S. health workers are looking to B.C. when they see the "erosion of rights, disregard of science and the denial of universal health care" in their own country.
Premier David Eby pledged last year that government would recruit 45,000 new health care workers over the next four years to help fill gaps.
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British Columbia's campaign was aimed at only 3 States, and liberal ones at that. Imagine what the other Provinces, especially Ontario and Quebec, and the Territories will achieve if they do the same. There will be a massive drain of doctors and health care workers from the USA to Canada's benefit for the reasons stated in the article.
Not only that, the imposition of the H-1B $100,000 cost will benefit the other nations that had provided not only health care workers but trained technology experts, such as the many that come from India and China, because all those trained and expert persons will just stay at home, and, as well give a boost for other nations besides Canada in obtaining foreign talent.
Trump’s $100,000 H-1B fee sparks a global race to grab top talent
LINK -> H-1B visa: What Trump’s $100,000 fee means for top global talent hubs