If you're from Canada, as is said, you basically have two choices (yes, exceptions to every rule)..
Instruct. Get your instructor rating with a school on the premisis that they will hire you as an instructor and spend a couple of years below the poverty line in the circuit... or...
Go up north. Get a job in some butthole of the earth town up north, load fuel barrels, mail bags, fuel aircraft, clean them, answer phones, sweep floors, eat sh!t and smile... and then maybe if you are lucky they will throw you in the right seat of a clapped out 99 for a slaves wage.
Either way, if you stick it out, eventually it will happen for you.