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I thought I mentioned bs was supposed to be left out? I guess it can't be helped.

Anyways, back to the topic.

Nef, I can agree with you completely believe it or not. My point was due to ethnic imbalances in the hiring and employment practices of companies. As far as any disabled person goes, as long as they can perform the requirements of the job in every respect they should get the job. If the job places requirements on the applicant that the disabled person can't fulfill, then they shouldn't be hired. Why should a co-worker shoulder the weight of some of the disabled applicant's responsibilities in order to allow the company to make a political statement by hiring said disabled person? I don't believe they should, and judging by your post you don't believe that to be right, either.

What I liken it to is this: you go overseas for post-secondary education but your language skills in that new place are shaky at best, verbally and literately. You then deicde to apply for a position you would ace at home. If the foreign firm hires you over someone else from that region that is just as competent, and your language barrier impedes you from the full obligation of your duties, then they're being racist.

Frost - you're assuming core competency equivalency. You're assuming that theoretical and hands-on education in a third-world or "remote" location rivals or exceeds that of a Canadian / US-led education. How can you assume that? Do you really want to realize that the new "foreign" doctor has never heard of a common way to treat your injury and decides to chop off your hand/foot? Do you really think that you can go to some remote part of the world and receive the same care?

It's ludicrous to think that those with limited exposure to proper education can be expected to arrive in a technologically-advanced society and perform to the standards of said society without any re-education. It might work from time to time, and we might get lucky, but do you want to go under the knife hoping that the doctor will get "lucky"?

I don't discount immigration... I can sympathize with and understand that others want to flee a life that is not proper or up to the minimum standards of what we all consider "humane living conditions". What I don't agree with is a lopsided idea that we should replace our post-secondary educated youth with direct immigrants that have had no formal North American post-secondary education.

You call it improper that they work for minimum wage. When I call a help-desk line for support that I PAY FOR, and I can't understand what's being said to me because the help desk person has an accent thicker than London Fog, that's a problem. A BIG problem. Have fun in the OR.