I'm not going to sit down an interview and explain why the Canadian system is inferior and old/old fashion
Wise. That said, if you elect to become an instructor in Canada, you are joining a team, a training team - in Canada - with Canadian methods and standards. You owe it to both your employer, and your students to behave with the spirit of a team member. Use the tools you have been given and genuinely do your best with them. Don't train an eager student, all the while cursing under your breath that you'd rather be..... No one is demanding your joining the training team, so if you elect to, be a team member, through and through. If you can do that, we have heard the last of your disdain for the Canadian system.
and getting the extra training .... have made me a better pilot....
Sure, it usually does - good job!
...... made me a better pilot and given me tools that I wouldn't otherwise be getting through Canadian training,
Horsefeathers. Aside from needing certain geographical/topographical features for training, otherwise, the locale of the instructor does not make the training better or worse - the instructor
skill does. If you think that the capability of Canadian instructors is lacking, you're flying with the wrong Canadians. Every nation can offer great pilots/instructors, and mediocre pilots/instructors - it's up to you to figure out who is who! Certainly, I've been asked to provide advanced training to "pilots" who have met the licensing requirements. I guess that they met those requirement - they have the license - but they did not meet
my requirements of skill for the advanced training they sought. If they can't keep a 172 within five feet of the centerline, I'm not eager to do tailwheel or water training with them - but they met the standard for a PPL on the type that they were examined in.
Sure, I think that the standards which were used to find some pilots to be satisfactory during examination were weak. I'd like to see tighter standards, and more training, from higher skill instructors for all students. Will that help our industry? Maybe/maybe not. If we make the standards so high that low experience instructors cannot succeed in preparing most students to pass in the time allotted/practical time, have we helped? Be careful what you ask for, if the Canadian training standards were raised (to where I'd be happy to see them), would
you have the skill and experience to train to them? Would
you want to lose one third of your students because they simply gave up? Could you be truly happy with yourself if your student consistently met a standard which was considered "satisfactory" in Canada, and they all passed their exams?
Again, if you would like to be taken seriously about piloting on a Canadian forum on the internet, or at a Canadian flying school, you're going to have to demonstrate that you can embrace the Canadian system as it is, for better or worse. Make your students so genuinely eager that they seek out the extra training that both you, and I, think that they should have. To do that, lead them to embrace the basics first, by your example....