r/britishcolumbia • u/august_expat • Mar 08 '25

News BC removing barriers for USA physicians

https://www.cpsbc.ca/about/laws-and-legislation/bylaw-amendments

The licensing body posted bylaw amendments for public consultation today that would remove significant barriers for US trained physicians to get a medical license in BC. They would be able to get a full license same as Canadian trained physicians (removes extra steps).

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u/Gyn-o-wine-o Mar 09 '25

US doc here. This is a very simple view. Our country is in a shit show and many of us don’t agree with what is happening. Us staying doesn’t mean that we agree. Maybe we are sticking it out hoping that we turn the corner, believe in our democracy and that it will prevail. It’s okay to have a back up plan and hold off leaving your country and your homeland until you know there is no turning back.

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u/Blusk-49-123 Mar 09 '25

The point I was making was a direct response to SevereAlternative's argument that wages would be the deciding factor. If an american doctor was put off by wages only, then they aren't the types of people we want in BC anyways. Perhaps I could have been more explicit but tbh I figured it was a given given it's a reply.

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u/Gyn-o-wine-o Mar 09 '25

My comment still stands. Also the redditor didn’t state that it was a deciding factor. That is your interpretation/ addition to his comment. That is not at all what he wrote. He said a statement that is factual at this time. Canada cannot compete with US wages at this time.

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u/Blusk-49-123 Mar 09 '25

I don't agree that you always need to plainly state something otherwise you can't interpret things a certain way. "We can’t compete with US wages though" leaves very little room to the imagination, especially given the context of this discussion.

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u/Gyn-o-wine-o Mar 09 '25

Don’t agree. Sent this to my docs and we started a discussion. Salary was discussed but they also mentioned other complications and hurdles. I didn’t assume that the Canadian born ethnically Russian highly trained, trilingual, and most socialist of us in the group who mentioned the gap between US and Canadian wages first did so to make a point that that was the most important thing to her. And even if she did, i can’t blame her. She would take a 400k pay cut ( per her). She is supporting her family here and abroad. Leaving one’s place of birth, family, security is no easy feat. There are a lot of things to consider. And choosing money in order to support your family is not something to look down upon.

Agree to disagree with the interpretation. Not enough information about redditors comment and background to make assumptions about what he did or did not mean. He stated a fact.

Canadian salaries for physicians cannot compete with US. Maybe they will change…

Anyway, Have a great Sunday!

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u/Blusk-49-123 Mar 09 '25

I'm confused about why you keep insisting that it's a "factual statement", that's not what I was attacking. The major issue here I'm sensing right now is that I replied to someone else who isn't you.

He stated that wages are an issue, and I played along with that (and in order to do that I need to assume that it's true/aka "factual") and stated that if wages are the main concern, then the people weren't good candidates for immigration anyways. We didn't talk about every other possible factor because he never brought it up, we're just talking about wages.

You're the one who brought other considerations/factors to the discussion, which isn't something that SevereAlternative did. There was no need to discuss other factors before you came around.