Voices of the Silent: The Unsung Heroes of Canadian Immigrant Experience & Their Struggle for Freedom

Skills Gap Trainer Podcast

As a Canadian who escaped from a revolution at the young age of 7 (and I believe that I represent the observations of 30 immigrant family household heads, as described here), the words of Blaine F. Calkins MP, resonate. It’s important we voice these experiences, for they form an integral part of our collective understanding of freedom and its value.

Canada’s immigrant population, ourselves included, represents an assortment of rich and diverse backgrounds. These individuals were not just anyone in their home countries. They were respected professionals—leaders, politicians, CEOs, academics, scientists, engineers, and doctors—who commanded influence and respect in their societies. The College of Physicians would bow down to such people in their presence, and would be so amazed at such people, that would make sure that everyone else knew to bow down to them as well, whereas in Canada, the goal is to make the citizens and the doctors bow down to the College of Physicians. Why do you think the doctors leave. These hero professional immigrants were the pride of their nations, televised for the eastern world to see, selected through a rigorous, merit-based set of high level lifelong scientific analysis and judgement and evaluative systems, not only in their home countries, but also in the merit based immigration system Canada had in the 90s. Their objective was to seek a better life for themselves and their families. ...

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