flaps2billion,
I personally know few guys who got jobs with cca 300TT flying A320, but that is in EU not in Canada. But the point here was; "When it is so hard already to get a job in Canada being a F/O on a turbine or for that matter on really anything that moves and flies; the companies have topped it up with their own req's but not because of themselves, mostly to do with the insurance companies". Not a surprise.
And how come that Canadian companies have such a tremendous ethics towards being doubly healthy instead of being doubly a pilot?
Minimums are set with reasons.
When you see one of the companies in EU such as ;Ryanair, easyjet,Air Berlin, etc...being involved in a serious accident when a F/O had only 300TT or more let me know. So far,no go.And they are there way longer than Westjet.
I believe any 300TT on the stick as F/O with JAA ATPL frozen is better than any ex-Canadian CFI with 1500TT with a blimy IATRA test...
Sorry, been there and know some.