the FAA is, by far, superior.
I have no experience with the FAA system, so cannot comment (though they did fill my request for a PPL in 1978). If you have the opportunity to continue your flying there, perhaps you'd feel more comfortable with their system. If you choose ('cause it is a choice for you) to continue your flying career in Canada, for better or worse, we have a system, and it's what you'll have to use. If you don't feel it is entirely to your liking, Transport Canada has paths by which your can comment - I have. I have had exam questions changed in the flight training department, along with much more comprehensive changes to standards and regulations in the Airworthiness department.
I already have enough hours on a multi to provide both Multi and Multi IFR instruction (I might need 10 hours on type of it's not PA34). I even got myself 20 hours PIC in IMC, some very close to minimum.
Yes, that all does sound very close to minimum. I hope that you'll continue to advance your experience and flying skills, and one day you may (as I have) begin to be genuinely nervous about training someone with minimum experience, particularly on type, then sending them solo. I once did begin to check a fellow out in his new (to him) Bellanca Viking when I was low time in it. His greatest skill to apply to flying it could not meet my expectations, so the training was not completed between us. In hind sight, and the more I age, the more comfortable I was with that decision. Had I signed him off, I would have felt terribly responsible if he'd had an accident in it. that has not been the only time in my career as an instructor on type, where I have declined to continue training to signoff.
I have largely given up training other pilots, I know either too little, or too much, to be comfortable sending some pilots solo. Very little of the training I did was supervised (it was all advanced type training, not ab initio), so I rarely had a mentor to reflect my observations about the candidate's progress. I could spend ten to twenty hours dual, and still think about all the things which I had not conveyed to the candidate yet, how could I compress it, and expose them to everything I thought that they should know. Perhaps if I had less experience, I could feel more comfortable training, but that ship has sailed for me. My best training experience was more than 75 hours flying together spread over three years, one of my most proud training achievements. he has recently aged out of flying after 12 years, and sold the plane with more than 600 safe hours PIC in it.
My one instructor mentor, who's opinion I value greatly, reads here, so likely will be considering this thread. I hope that you will find the opportunity you're looking for... When your are getting close, wow them with your enthusiasm, and eagerness to share your knowledge to the benefit of others. Certainly mention your role as a Paramedic trainer (another role I have endless respect for, having been a volunteer firefighter here for 28 years). Having taken formal firefighting instructor courses, I can say that the instructor course for whatever discipline, when overlayed to another course of study, still has great value!