J.O.
I think you are misinterpreting what I am saying. And it has everything to do with this thread as a person has come here asking for help and has been shot down in flames by narrow minded people.
I have never said that Canada has any anti-foreign policies at all. I just get sick of hearing local pilots standing on their soap boxes and broadcasting through anonymity, anti-foreign ideals.
I also never implied that there was no bad pilots from other nations. What I was saying, was that the "local knowledge" stuff is crap. Quite a few Canadian pilots who are getting these jobs in the north have had no experience in the conditions they are getting themselves into.
I'm sorry, but they are just as inexperienced as a foreign pilot.
Judging by the massive make up of Polynesian, Indian, Asian and Southern African nationalities in New Zealand. I do not think that it is hard to get in here.
They use the same system to get into NZ as in Canada. Study,
PR and then get family in under that application. But that is starting to get way off topic.
I have no qualms with there being hoops to jump through with getting into a country. I have said that all along.
Once they are in the country, with a permit in hand, to judge them on where they are from is ignorant and wrong.
If they have the legal right, then it should be the best person for the job.