Good old Patrick, I bet he's kicking himself now!! We've all dropped a massive clanger in our lives and it looks like this is Patrick's !!
What a lot of you haven't picked up on is the fact that Pat is no good to ANY overseas ATC provider without Certificates of Competence (ie validations) and TIME SERVED (or experience if you prefer!).
So he's going to have to leave the college, validate somewhere and get 4-5 yrs experience under his belt before he could in all seriousness sell himself to NAVCANADA, SERCO (Middle East) etc etc. So he's sort of bonded by default.
Perhaps this hadn't occured to him. Still, there's always changing your name by deed poll
How about Leighton Patrickson??