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Subject: [OT] I thought indentured servitude was a thing of the past
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I saw this article just now and found myself thinking about indentured 
servitude of all things:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-bill-83-law-doctors-study-public-private-1.7517752

I don't know exactly how indentured servitude worked back in the day. It 
was certainly different from slavery in that slavery was for life unless 
your owner freed you and that slaves could be inherited.

I know that indentured servitude was typically for a period of 5 to 7 
years and that you were free to go your own way after that. However, I'm 
not sure if you received a salary or only room and board while you were 
doing your servitude.

Certainly, these doctors are NOT working for free or for room and board 
but I find myself wondering if a court challenge will find judges 
telling Sante Quebec (Health Quebec in French) that they are violating 
the human rights of doctors by forcing them to practice in the public 
sector for 5 years whether they like it or not.

When my parents came to Canada, the government paid their passage and 
then gave them a year to pay back that cost but the government did NOT 
mandate where they worked, just that they had to work. (If there was 
welfare in those days, it was meagre at best and there was plenty of 
work to be found so they worked off the cost of their passage.)

-- 
Rhino