Expatriot Pilots - Are they welcome in Canada??
 

I am from Australia and have relatives who live in Montreal, and I would love to live in Canada for a few years.

Even though I wouldn't necessarily like to put anyone out of a job, i am a pilot and therefore would like to work flying planes there.

1. What are the job prospects for a 1500 hr ATPL pilot with 700 ME command, Instrument rating and US and Australia ATPL??

2. Would you Canucks run me out of town or be offended in anyway??

Please be gentle.

Answers to your questions:

1. Your US and Oz licences would have to be converted to the coveted Canadian ATPL - not hard, 3 written tests and a flight test. Then your job prospects could be rated as excellent!!

2. Only if you didn't bring a few hundred kilos of Vegemite.

Come on up and freeze your butt off!

Thanks for the reply - point me in the direction of an employer, and there'll be some Vegemite on its way!! Personally, i find the stuff quite disgusting!!!

Where can I get details about the Canadian ATPL??

Thanks again

Achilles, try http://www.tc.gc.ca/aviation/
You should find what yer lookin' for.

Be sure to see that you are able to work here first before spending hard earned dough on converting your licences and later finding out that you can't.

Thanks you guys - I look forward to meeting y'all (hopefully) sometime in the future!!

By the way, for such a big country, your bulletin is awfully quiet!!

Canada has been ranked by the United Nations
as the # 1 place on earth to live, many years in a row. Government agencies are very politically correct, discrimination is not openly tolerated. If you can obtain the right to work in Canada , you should have no problem getting employment or being accepted. Should you and a Canadian born Canadian apply for the same job it would basically come down to whomever is the better qualified.

If you are employed under a Work Permit, it will be granted by Immigration Canada only if there is no suitably qualified Canadian or Landed Immigrant who wants the job. Getting a Work Permit depends on a prospective employer filling out the necessary paperwork for Immigration Canada among which is somewhere a statement to that effect.

Equality of employment is only available to Citizens or Landed Immigrants.

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[This message has been edited by Code Blue (edited 26 May 2001).]

Unless, IHL, you choose to move to Quebec, ha ha.

Hey hey, careful about the "Québec" slander... :) :) :)

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[This message has been edited by Tricameleer (edited 29 May 2001).]

Think Landry might get offended??? Suppose he can dish it but not take it.

Hey Panama! point well taken, aren't I feeling a little sheepish...
We are kinda "stuck" with him till the next election...sigh!...when is that, anyway? http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/frown.gif http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/frown.gif http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/frown.gif

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