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Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: [OT] I thought indentured servitude was a thing of the past Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:15:22 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 46 Message-ID: <vue9lb$265t8$5@dont-email.me> References: <vue3l4$265t8$4@dont-email.me> <vue7b7$2asog$4@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 23:15:25 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="739fbe9c401e27528d158a35f9664a7f"; logging-data="2299816"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/MiiDIO51bsNGiQ2s/xlyb5tHPg52YGLs=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:xndhZ5/rWBS/2/B33GZPqPFd1mU= X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 250424-12, 4/24/2025), Outbound message Content-Language: en-CA X-Antivirus-Status: Clean In-Reply-To: <vue7b7$2asog$4@dont-email.me> On 2025-04-24 4:35 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > 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. > I'm not sure about doctors but I know we've had a real issue with nurses trained here getting scooped up by US hospitals to work there. That's been going on for many years now. Next time you're in a hospital, ask around and see how many of your nurses are Canadian. I'd be interested in what you hear. >> 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