It's a bit late for Canadians to be upset about that kind of stuff...
I used to see ex-pats (yes, including Canadians) come to the Caribbean all the time and take good flying jobs while fully qualified locals sat around unemployed... they are still flocking down there on contracts (just like the CAC), and there are still Canadians down there on rotation (again, just like the CAC).
I was one of the pilots laid off (read fired for no good reason) when Bob Dale (of Air Dale, Sioux Ste. Marie) came to Barbados and bought into TropicAir (Shrike Commanders, Islanders, DC-3s). He fired ALL of the hard-working local pilots and shipped in Canadians for ALL aircraft types.
Where's the justification? Where we locals were paid a very low local salary without housing or travel (doesn't that sound economical?), the Canadians received the (much higher) standard Canadian salary plus overseas allowances, and were provided with accommodations and vehicles. They also had their travel to and from Canada paid for.
While I sympathise with your complaint, perhaps it's appropriate Canadians be dosed a bit of the medicine others have been force-fed all these years.
The irony is that now I am in my adopted so-called "First World" country, the same thing is happening to keep me unemployed here. So if you think life is hard and unfair, I suggest you take a moment to think that there are always others less fortunate than yourself.
I can't see either Immigration or Transport doing diddly squat to make any difference... the aircraft will not be registered in Canada, and neither the crews nor the aircraft will spend enough time in Canada to make the slightest difference in terms of residence. Somebody has worked the system (AGAIN) and will bypass all the "controls" (AGAIN).
So, welcome to Canada's REAL status - Third World (or, at the absolute highest ranking, Second World), which is determined by the federal and provincial government's behaviour (both political and civil).
I won't even start a rant about health care, taxation, unemployment or governmental/civil service performance - you should have experienced (or heard about) most of that incompetence, double-dipping and corruption already. Coming from the Third World I saw it the day I set foot on this soil, and I still see it every day.
'Nuff said.
"So go back home", I hear you say... no, I don't think so. However bad it gets here, it's still better than back "home". At least here there is a system to be worked!!!