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Subject: Re: [OT] I thought indentured servitude was a thing of the past
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:35:51 -0000 (UTC)
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On Apr 24, 2025 at 12:32:51 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:

> 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.

Does the U.S. recognize Canadidian medical degrees? If they are recognized, it
seems to me if I was a Canadidian  med school graduate, I'd get a work visa
and move to the U.S. to practice.

> 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.)