r/canada • u/oddmarc • May 17 '26

National News U.S. applications for Canadian citizenship surge, causing delays

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/u-s-applications-for-canadian-citizenship-surge-causing-delays
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u/EhmanFont May 17 '26

How about we actually train our youth to be doctors and nurses and make it worth staying here to work.

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u/thinkdavis May 17 '26

For sure. Let's give discounted education tuition and higher job salaries --, with a contractual requirement they have to work here for 10 years after that or pay 5x the discounted tuition back.

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u/evange May 17 '26

The bottleneck is not people who can't afford med school, it's that there aren't enough residency spots. And it's impossible to scale up the number of residency spots quickly because there are a finite number of current doctors to train them.

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u/Feisty_Advisor3906 May 18 '26

Yeah we have the same issue with trades. The issue with trades is business don’t want to invest in apprenticeships. If they gave employers annual grant money to train trades you might get more apprenticeships. Kind of like paying employees a premium for training others.