Helping U.S. Healthcare Workers Move to Canada

Oh look, there it is, another day and a— All right, and Instagram's not going to work, of course. I don't know what Instagram has against me. I thought I had that all figured out. I thought I had it figured out. Oops. But apparently I didn't. I do not understand. Like, I have the code. Copy the stream key and enter it in your streaming software. I did. Argh. Argh. Well, we have a prettier background at least. If nothing else, we have a prettier background. That counts for something, right? Thank you, Bloop. Welcome back, Booplerp. We have a prettier background. I don't know what it looks like on TikTok. Let's see. How do I— how do I see? Oh, it's not on TikTok. Oh, this stuff is so complicated, bro. Fuck about being— oh, it is, it is on TikTok. How is it? Oh, it's just up at the top. Okay, that's not bad. Actually, that's kind of the perfect place. You know what's funny? You know what's funny is that I spent— let me tap in. What is that button for? Oh, that makes it go full screen. Okay. This is actually better. You know what happened? You know what I did? I spent this whole time making a vertical version of this for TikTok and Instagram, but Instagram's just not working for me. The vertical thing was just basically the way you see it, and then it said, "Well, you could just stream horizontal and we'll just put it in the right place." I'm like, "Well, thanks very much." Thank you for, for that. You have no idea how tempted I am to put my nursing degree to use in Canada. We would welcome you to do it. Have you looked into it? There's a full screen. Yeah, I saw that, I saw that. So it's even better than what I was doing before. So you could tap that to go, to go full screen. Is there a way to 1060 by 1080? Yeah, so I can go— sorry, the hair is because I have a fan blowing at me. Can you turn off the chat though, I wonder? I don't think so. Oh yeah, you can. Yeah, all right, that's really cool, that's really cool. Yeah, see, I wouldn't— wasn't able to do that before. All right, any questions about moving to Canada? Hi Alden, welcome. About moving to Canada. So now I have two— I basically have two— I basically have two chat windows I have to look at. I have YouTube and I have TikTok, and Instagram is still just ignoring me. It's just not straight up not doing anything. But I am happy to answer any questions if you folks have any. Oh. I like the background though. It took me a long time to figure out how to chroma key myself out of it because I will show you what it looks like without the chroma key and you will understand why I have the chroma key on. See, it's awful, it's messy, nobody needs to see that. So I thought I would come on every once in a while and, uh, maybe every other day or so and see if anyone has any questions about, uh, about it all. You know what I did notice though is— hey, TikTok people, is do you notice this as well? That the little button to— the little button to make it full screen is covering up the text down here. Are you seeing that as well? And do I have to move that text? Maybe it's awfully small, isn't it? It's all awfully small anyway. It is, eh? Yeah, well, I don't know what I'll do. I'll figure something out. I think I need to make it bigger anyway. Oh, you know what? I, I can, I can do it this way. No, that's bad. Is that bad? Let's see what happens. Yeah, that's not right. That made it incredibly small, but they can see it in full screen. Yes, true, true, true, true. All right, let's try this again. Sorry, I'm aware that it's weird looking. And we're gonna drop this background and we're gonna add the real background. Actually, I think I could just copy this background from here. Copy and then paste a duplicate. Hey, all right. And then I can put myself up here and put my screen up here, which will be better for the YouTube people anyway. Yeah, you know what, I don't care if it covers it up for the purposes of this briefly. Or do I? Maybe I do. Yeah, I probably do. All right, so that's like, you know, then I'm just like over here in a corner. Oh hey, I You can actually be kind of big in it, you know. I'll put myself behind. Can I put myself behind? Yes, I can. There you go. Yeah, so you probably have to— you'll probably have to like go full screen if you want to actually like see any of that. And even so, you probably can't really see it. Oh yeah, you know, you might be able to. Of course, that's the first thing it pulls up. Yeah, so, you know, in full screen mode, it's, it's, uh, it works. All right, all right, we're working on it, we're working on it. Does that have the helping healthcare workers? Yes, it does. All right. I don't think I'm teeny anymore in this. Am I? I'm a little bit teenier. True, I'm a little bit teenier. All right, let's see how it looks on the other platforms, and then we may have something. Then we may actually have figured it out. Oh, if you have picture-in-picture, it'll also stay large. That's kind of exciting. See, I'm worried— oh no, that's, that's on YouTube as well. It's just people on YouTube aren't talking. That's the only thing. Is the audio working? Yeah. All right, let's see how it looks on the other platforms. Wait, is there an echo? No, maybe not. All right, okay, so we're working. It's getting there. Oh, I missed some. Covers care and worker, not the URL though. What are you saying? Uh, I'm already here but happy to welcome more. Yes. YouTube does have a delay. Yeah, that's true. It's not a huge delay though. Oh, Canada is welcoming accountants. Yes. So, oh, moving to Ontario for master's. Nice. Hang on, I gotta turn up the heat. Oh my God, I keep turning up the heat and it ignores me. Um, I like to have my place baking. So, so here's the thing, here's the thing about healthcare workers and all that stuff is skilled workers is what we need. Skilled workers. And you can actually find where all these skilled workers— like what the draws are if you go to the, uh, now how do I find it? Express Entry rounds of invitations, check previous rounds. Yeah, yeah, here's what— okay, so hang on, now we're gonna actually use the sharing my screen. For a purpose. You know what I really want to do? Can I just share? Do you think I can just share this one app? Oh, oh, I can. Oh, all right, that's sexy. Yeah, that's way better. Okay, so, um, So this right here is what I'm talking about. So there's a web page. Is that even visible? Is that even visible? Oh, you see, now the problem is now I can't see what you guys are saying, so I'm gonna have to drag this out here so I can see your comments. All right, so these are the rounds. Uh, these are— hello, Exploring! These are the rounds that are, um, when, when the federal government is ready to accept new people in as permanent residents, it goes to the pool And the pool is where all of the people who want to be invited to be permanent residents sit. So this is after they've come in through an express entry program like the Canadian Experience Class or the Provincial Nominee Program, which gives you bonus stuff. This, this is the pools. And the minister— the ministers have— let me move this back— the Minister of Immigration has got what they call ministerial instructions. So every week or two The Minister of Immigration will say, all right, we want a certain number of people and we want this kind of people. And so here are what they've done. I hope this is legible. Let me try making it bigger. Does that screw it up or does that help? I feel like that helped. Yeah, okay. So the most recent one was yesterday. Yesterday's draw was draw number 350, and they pulled people from the Provincial Nominee Program. So that means if you did not go through the Provincial Nominee Program and you went through the regular Express Entry program, you were not going to be accepted here. This is why the Provincial Nominee Program is so important. And look how many times— there they pulled, there they pulled, there they pulled, these two times, this— like almost every other one has been Provincial Nominee Program, and that is most provinces have that. So the federal government has this big pool of people that they're willing to invite in, and they accept a certain number every, every so often. So in this case, they only asked— they only said we'll pull 125, and your rank has to be 125 or higher. That was nothing. Wow. Oh, here it is. That's 784. That makes more sense. So that's a reasonably high number, but remember that everyone in this Provincial Nominee Program probably qualified for that score. And that's because they— just having gone through the Provincial Nominee Program, being nominated by your province, gets you 600 points immediately. So even if you only have 184 points, which would be very difficult. Like, you'd have to speak not very good English, and you'd have to not have a lot of money, and, you know, like, I mean, you'd have to work at it, at being kind of— if you come through Provincial Nominee Program, you get 600 points, you're basically in. Now, the Provincial Nominee Program has its own kind of things, but you can see a week ago they were looking for healthcare and social services occupations, and they asked— they invited 500 people to apply for permanent residency. Oh, did it really travel, uh, travelt? I didn't know that. The Canadian Experience Class are people who have worked in Canada previously for at least a year, I believe. That is one of the 3 Express Entry programs. It used to be that this used to be their biggest priority, but I feel that like Provincial Nominee Program is, is a lot higher. And look at this, at the beginning of— some people say, well, do they need teachers? They did on May 1st. They did. They asked for 1,000. They invited 1,000. Educational people on this day to be in. I don't know why this says rank required to be invited to apply. That seems like a typo. So CRS score of the lowest ranked candidate invited, 479. Fairly low. And so here's the official— here's the actual government, the ministerial instructions. It's basically— and here, here are the actual things they were looking for, right? Oh, they were only looking for— so this is what they were looking for there. There. Does it specify region where required? Nope. This is— these are— this— what you're looking at here is the federal program. So it could be anywhere. So they wanted elementary school and kindergarten teachers, elementary school teacher assistants, early childhood educators, instructors of persons with disabilities, and secondary school students. So no librarians in this particular draw. And you can get to this webpage yourself. It's on— just Google, Google, uh, Express Entry rounds of invitations. I guess that's probably the easiest way to do it. There we go. Let me get that to go on. Yeah, all right. So you could, so you could basically work, you can basically work anywhere. So yeah, it's, it's important. It doesn't— oh, I have a YouTube comment. It doesn't break down by provinces, does it? No, it doesn't need to. It doesn't need to. So, so there's no— this is federal, so it's everyone. It's everyone. All right, and now I can see— now I think I can see both YouTube comments and, um, and TikTok comments. So yeah, and you can also get your own score, right? You can, you can ask for your own score here. So let's go back, let's go back to that web page. Go to check your score. Canada's complaining about immigration? No, there's a few people that watch Fox News from across the border that complain about immigration, but Canada is mostly pro-immigrant. Our country is— our country is immigrants, just like the US is as well. So no, there's no— there's no hatred toward immigrants here. All right, so you want to go to this check your score thing on the government web page, and you're going down here to— it's not just conservatives complaining, there's lots of— there's lots of people that complain, but You know, it's silly because this is— it is what we, what we have. Um, so make your— if you're watching on TikTok and, and you want to see this full screen, there's a little button that will make it go full screen. So this will tell you whether or not, or how many points you'd roughly earn. So the only downside is you'll see at the end of this sort of quiz that it's going to ask you what your score was in a language test. You probably haven't done your language test, you don't know what your score is, but if you think you're pretty good at English, you would give it, you know, second to the highest, basically. So what are you? Let's say you're married. Let's see what my score would be. I'm married. Is my spouse or common-law partner a citizen? Yes. Oh, you know what, it's just gonna say, well, you can already go. So let's, let's say no. Will your spouse or common-law partner come with you to Canada? Yes. How old are you? Oh, you're not gonna like this, by the way. The older you get, the fewer points you get. And if you are 45 years or old, you get 0 points. 45 is like the death knell. So we're just gonna pretend I'm 28. What is the highest level of education for you? I'm gonna say— I mean, I'm gonna say that. Let's see what— let's see what that has. Have you earned a Canadian degree, diploma, or certificate? Yes. Choose the best answer to describe this level of education. It's one of those. Okay, so this is what I was talking about earlier. I know, right, Burp? Blurp Burp? But it's a— and it doesn't mean you can't get in after 45. It just means you will not score as many points. But it's— it is a small— that it is not a big lever overall. So this is what I mentioned before about the point system. About how I can make this bigger, about how, um, it wants to know what your, what your education points are or your test result points are. Um, are your test results more than, less than 2 years old? Yes, they are. What language did you take first? So these are the testing organizations. Actually, I think these are the tests. So we're just gonna pick one and we're gonna score. I think it's like 5 to 9 basically. Well, maybe not. So I'm gonna say I'm gonna say I'm pretty good. Yeah, it's critical to get the Provincial Nominee Program. You, again, you can get in without it through Express Entry, but Provincial Nominee Program, like, the federal government has set it aside, has, has told the provinces, we are going to give you some people that can bypass the line, essentially. It's not completely accurate, you're not really bypassing it, but you know, they, they get so many bonus points for being in the provincial health program that it's basically like it. So we're just gonna say— we're just gonna pretend it's 9 points. Oh, by the way, if you are finding this helpful, please share this live and like this live. That would be very helpful. Do you have any other language tests? No, I do not. That's if you have like French language or something. So I've, I've basically guessed at what my language skills are. I'm going to say 9 or something. In the last 10 years, how many years of skilled work experience in Canada do you have? I'm gonna say none. In the last 10 years, how many total years of foreign skilled work do you have? 3 years or more. Do you have— whoops— do you have a certificate of qualification from a Canadian province, territory, or federal body? So this will be for, um, this will be for people in regulated industries: lawyers, accountants, uh, nurses, doctors. Nurse practitioners, all of those. Anything— anyone in a reg— excuse me, in a regulated industry, that's what this means. And your first step before you even get to this— Crispy, uh, Crispify, you're very welcome. Um, you're not sure how to get provincial nomination program? Just Google the name of your province and provincial nomination program. You'll get to it. BC's is great. So, um, I forgot what I was gonna say. Oh yeah, so if you are a regulatory profession, like a doctor, for instance, or a lawyer, you have to first get your certificate or your license approved or authorized to use in Canada. Now, if you're a doctor, you don't really have to do a ton, from what I understand. The College of Physicians and Surgeons is making it very, very quick, or a lot quicker than it used to be. My understanding is they can actually pull your records from the boards in the US, so they can do it electronically. You just— what they're looking for is to make sure that you— that your training that you had is equivalent or better than the training in Canada, right? If you're trained— like, let's just say that— let's just say that for some reason, the country of— I'm just going to randomly pick France, all right? Let's just say that the French, uh, uh, um, medical school is just shit. And forgive me, French people. But let's just say that they don't like— they're just bad. It's 6 months or whatever, but they have a license in France. If they come here, they will judge whether or not it's— if it's equivalent. And if it's not, then you probably have to go for more training. But anyway, in this case, yes, I do have a certificate. Do you have a valid job offer already? So that's really going to help you. If you actually look at the website that I created to help you folks. So my wife and I created this website, um, oops, and its job is to help you, um, understand sort of the process. And you will see that step 2, immediate, like first, first step is to, in the case of BC, go to HealthMatch BC. And then join our Discord. And then step 2 is get a job offer, like right away. Right away is you got to do that. So back to this. Yes, I have a job offer. And, and the, and, and the, in the case of, of HealthMatch BC, let's go to them. They can help you find a job. They won't get you a job, but they will give you like a list of jobs that are available and something like that. Why would they leave high salary for peanuts? They're not peanuts. Doctors are paid actually pretty well in Canada, and they don't have to wrestle with insurance companies. They get paid almost immediately. They do the billing right in a mobile phone app, and it gets— the money gets deposited in their bank account in like a day or two. So, uh, doctors are here really actually quite happy. They're not paid peanuts. That is a talking point from Fox News that seems to get around. So, all right, so let's go back here. Thank you, Keaton. I'm help. I'm happy to. So, uh, now what, what NOC tier is the job offer? This is the level of training that is required for it. So let's go find what your NOC tier is, and this is what they look like. Tier 0, management occupations, advertising, and so on. Tier 1 require university degrees. Tier 2 require a college diploma. Tier 3 requires a college diploma or 6 months of on-the-job training. 0 to 3 is basically what they accept. If you are Tier 4 or 5, you're probably not going to be invited. And those are just high school diploma or a few weeks on the job. It's kind of— I— and like, they give an example of home health care providers. Remember, this is not like daycare operators, right? These are people that do it in their home and so on. That's very true, Keetkin. Uh, nurses are heavily unionized. Heavily— all nurses, at least in BC, are unionized. Um, all right, so let's say that I am a doctor. I probably am tier 1, right? I've got a university degree, so I'm going to say that tier 1. Any— oh, interesting. Well, there's what I told you, right? They split out 4 and 5. Do you have a nomination certificate from a province or territory? So this is the Provincial Nominee Program. I'm gonna say no because I don't want to artificially balloon our score with the 600 bonus points you get from doing it. Do you or your spouse or common-law partner, if they will come with you, have at least one brother or sister living in Canada who is a permanent citizen or resident? What? I'm so slow today. Do you or your spouse have at least one brother or sister? No, I do not. What is the highest level of education that your spouse has? She— well, in my case, she's smarter than I am, so we're gonna say master's degree. A master's in public health, I might add. And she's been published in The Lancet, I might add. Um, in the last 10 years, how many years of skilled work experience does your spouse or common-law partner have? She has 5 years or more. Did your spouse take a language test? Again, for the purposes of this, we're gonna lie and we're gonna say, "Yes, we did." And she also scored 9 on everything. The only part you won't actually know when you're doing this thing is what your score is, but say 9. If you're good at English, Say 9, that is conservative, right? You will be, you'll be fine with that. Oh, Help Us All, I'm really sorry I missed your, your comment before. How about MRI technologists? Also in the list, right? Like I said, it's not really about do you need this or that, it's what is at that moment, what is the government draw looking for? And I'll come back to that if you, if you, if you're new. All right, here's the score. All Express Entry candidates get a score out of 1,200. No one gets that high. And your score is— I get 512. So now, would I have been invited under that to have come in for— to be invited, rather, for Express Entry? Well, that depends on the draw, on the pool, or excuse me, on the draw from the pool, basically. So let's go to Rounds of invitations. What was I? 512, right? Was I 512? I think I was 512. And let's see if I would have made it. So we'll take— oh, where am I? Where is it? Check previous rounds. Here it is. Ah, thank you, Miss Lish. In CELPIP, which is one of the language tests, you need a 7 or higher to pass. Okay. So I said I scored 512. So I would have barely got in on this, right? Now, now, this doesn't mean that even though the, the lowest score required was 504 and I got 512, I technically qualified, right? I don't know why I'm looking over here. You guys are over here. Hi. So technically I qualified because the lowest score for this draw was 504 and I scored 512, but they asked 500 people. And are there 500 people that got higher than me, 512? Probably, especially with all the fucking provincial nominee people and their fancy 600 bonus points. So maybe I wouldn't have. Maybe I wouldn't have. Let's see where another— so So this one here— oh, hang on a second, I'm trying to find one where I wouldn't have qualified at all. Canadian Experience Class, I would not have qualified for this draw. I wouldn't have even been invited, which is a shame because they were asking for 4,000. Now the Canadian Experience Class is people who already have 1 year of work experience. With the 600 bonus, wouldn't your score be close to the full 1,200? It would. It would be very close. You'd be— that's why I say the Provincial Nominee Program is incredibly strong. It is a huge asset in your favor. I'm gonna call this rounds and then call this tier. Yeah, hugely important, hugely important. So if you see on right down, not below me, but the, the link on the right of on the far right that says visit nanaimoinfusion.ca. That's going to be this website that my wife and I set up for you people. For you people. Hello Gord, welcome. And there's a little welcome video from me here. Hello, if you are a healthcare worker and you are— Your first step if you want to go to BC is to create an account on HealthMatch BC. Do not get scared by this very government-looking form. It's literally just like, what's your first step? Is to get an email address. And then someone will, someone from the BC Health Ministry who is a recruiter, a recruitment specialist, will get in touch with you and help you through the process. And like, because having a job offer early is really important, so they would, you know, provide you with where the websites are for the job listings if you can't find them on your own. They're like concierges. But the best way to describe them is think Holiday Inn concierge, not Four Seasons concierge. You know what I mean? So that's what we're— that's what we're talking about. The island is amazing. The island is absolutely beautiful. So, yeah. So create that. If you are a doctor, you can also contact the Divisions of Family Practice. They will help you. We also have a free Discord, by the way. If you tap my bio link, there'll be a link to the Discord in there. And we have recruiters from Island Health in there you can talk to. We have a recruiter for the head of recruitment for BC Emergency Health Services. That's paramedics and the 911 people. That person is in the Discord. We have a registered immigration consultant named Laura from Nanaimo who can answer some basic questions, and you'd probably want to hire her if you want to ask deep questions. There is someone from who's been in your shoes, Laurie K. We have nurses in there that have already made the switch. Some of them have arrived in Nanaimo, already some are on their way. Uh, on here is an interview that I did. Hello, I'm Tod Maffin. The difference, I guess I should step back for just one second here, that there is a difference between some of the training and here's all sorts of information. So all of this is on the link on the bottom right that says nanaimoinfusion.ca. And if you are a nurse, you get this information. We got, we got lots of, lots of stuff. I had a video in here. Hello, this video walked through the whole— they're not— this almost is fine for reading. If you're good at all those and you're just not that great at writing and you get a 7, then you would get 4 points for writing, right? So on. So you get 6 points. And then we talk about Vancouver Island because that's where we really want you to move to, although you can move anywhere. There's a list of skilled professionals Canada's seeking. Yes and no. Canada is seeking all skilled professionals. It's less about the job you do and more about do you have enough points to be pulled from the pool. And by the way, if you are not pulled from the pool within a year, you are thrown out of the pool. So you gotta call it. You really have to get that provincial nominee program. It's just so, so, so, so helpful. Yeah, come to everywhere. Ontario is fine, Quebec is fine, but come to Vancouver Island. Screw those people. No, I'm kidding. Um, there is a way to see what kind of, uh, what kind of jobs, uh, there are, but it's not— that's, that's the big misconception, I think, that Canada has a magic list of job— of jobs that we want. I wish it were that easy, but it's not because it's— it depends, right? Like, on June 4th, they invited 500 healthcare people. On May 1st, they invited 1,000 educators. Quebec, uh, this is a YouTube comment. Quebec would require French as a language, wouldn't it? Oh yes, oh yes, Quebec is very, very strict about the French language there, for good reason. So yes, and look at, look at how many people— if you're good at French, 4,500 people were invited down here on February 19th. 6,500 people were invited to apply for permanent residency. Canadian Experience Class always gets a lot. Those are people who've already— who've had a year of Canadian work experience already. So if you can get that somehow, you can, you know, get— that's a great program to get into. But again, it's not— I don't think it's as good as the Provincial Nominee Program. But yeah, you can see basically, like, I mean, if we just do a search for healthcare, we can see that they've had one in the last year. They've had 37, so that's 6— hang on, 3,000 plus 3,750 plus 500 plus whatever that one was, plus 500. So almost 8,000 people they've requested, or they, they have invited to apply for permanent residency from healthcare occupations. Interestingly, these are healthcare occupations and this is healthcare and social services. So they, they broadened it, they broadened it in the last couple of months. But we can see, like, we can go in here and see what jobs were in the pool for that. You know, what they were pulling specifically. So there were 3,000 invitations. That's an invitation to apply for permanent residency, and you needed a score of at least 463, which is reasonably low. Like, that's not a difficult score to achieve. And here are, if we scroll down, we can find All— here's all the things that they were looking for. So do we need these people on this day for this draw from the pool? The Minister of Immigration, who sent the ministerial instruction letter, said these are the jobs we need today. A week later, it was education people they were looking for. So there's not a master list of like, these are the people that we that we need all the time. You are looking at, at essentially what it— so there were a lot. Was it— did they say healthcare? Because it seems like it's more, because it's got educational counselors in here. Did that say healthcare? I think it did. Anyway, yeah, and you can get— you can see all of these draws on their website for yourself. But yes, my YouTube friend whose name I can't pronounce, Quebec would require French as a, as a language. You really cannot— even, even not being an immigrant from another country like the US, even not being that, you would, you would need, you'd still need to have French. Like, if I, if I moved If I moved to Quebec, I would have a difficult time. Like, I understand— I can kind of mostly understand the French language. I can hear it, I can read it reasonably well. Like, I understand like half of the words. I can make myself understood in an emergency, I probably could, but my grammar is horrible. Apparently my pronunciation is excellent. But a YouTube comment from Christopher says, nicely done all this work, Manitoba needs lots of nurses. We everywhere does. Everywhere, everywhere. You go through skill shortage list to get an idea of what Canada needs. You could, but like, Canada needs— that's not true, Michelle. The Quebec— some Quebeckers don't like their Quebec. I don't like the English, but that's, you know, that's the way it is. I don't like raccoons, but I'm not mean to them. I'm sometimes mean to them. That's not true. Um, and by that I mean literal raccoons, just before I get myself canceled. So, um, yeah, so there's not really any kind of like single, single list, unfortunately. It's all skilled, right? It's skilled labor. Like, if we look at the— see if I can find my video— if we look at the 3 main Express Entry paths, uh, Hang on, here it is. Okay, 3 programs. There is the Canadian Experience Class. This is actually the one they pick from first, um, as I understand it. Uh, and this is for people who have already worked in Canada at least a year. There is the Federal Skilled Worker Program, but that would be the healthcare people. And then there's the Federal Skilled Trades Program for, uh, plumbers. Carpenters, electricians, stuff like that. Even managers. Managers rank really highly for some reason in the system. Like, if you look at the actual jobs, it's not under tier, but there is— there's like an occupations list. Let me see if I can find the occupations list. Here it is. Oh, that's— oh, I don't want the archived one. How do I find the Maybe I just have to Google it, or maybe it's lower on the page. Oh, just lower on the page. All right, so, so yeah, I'm just gonna type in manager, and you can see that it's— they're all, they're all tier 0, which is, uh, the kind of top of the list. Doctor's not on there. Maybe it needs physician. There we go. Family physicians. And don't worry about the tier category in terms of like, is 2 better than 1? Something like that. As long as you are 0 to 3, you're fine. But we could also, we could also just like go down to the bottom of this list, I think, and see what is not really accepted. Like cashiers are on tier 5. You are probably not going to get in. Service station attendants. Other performers. Let you use your imagination on that. This person who, again, I can't pronounce your name, I'm sorry. Pretty sure Quebec appreciates the attempt to communicate in French. That they do. As long as you understand what they're trying to say and you respond appropriately, it's fine to have poor grammar. That is true. Most people— there are some hardcore Québécois, you know, you can identify them because they're the ones smoking. It's also fucking pointless, right? Those guys, they'll be a little mad. Everyone else, everyone else will be fine. Sorry, I've been ignoring the TikTok chat for— I did not mean to. Lived in Ottawa for a while in my 20s and only spoke retail French. It puts a ceiling on your career in Ottawa. It would. Ottawa, for a couple of reasons. First of all, Ottawa and, uh, and Hulk Quebec, our sister city. So Ottawa is right beside Quebec, that province, and Ottawa itself is a very bilingual city because it's our national capital. Moncton, oddly, is also incredibly bilingual, randomly, and everywhere in Canada. And there's also like, I think it's Port Coquitlam, or maybe it's somewhere in the Tri-Cities in, uh, in BC, is as well. Some of my friends who've immigrated were artists. Yeah, they could be, you I mean, let's see what artists show up as. So there you go. Artists are tier 3, so they would be most likely in the— able to be in the pool. How's that? We need to move to Canada. Other performers. Yeah, I know, other performers. OnlyFans. Is it just for shits and giggles? Adult. What else would it be under? What else would OnlyFans be under? Adult? No, so it's not gonna be porn. Anyway, we'll see. It's probably just other performers. Other performance, which is, which is lowest priority, sadly. Is there a way to learn Québécois in the States? Québécois is, uh, is French. But slurred and some slang words. It's not a real language. Québécois is not an actual language. It's more of a— it's the language they speak is French. The language they speak is French, but Québécois is like a, you know, Québécois is like, first of all, it's like this, you know, it's like a different— it's an affect, essentially. It's a dialect. Is that right? It's, it's the slang. My whole family is from Quebec, right? I was the firstborn on the West Coast, so I learned— I, I heard a lot of that. Mon Dieu, les vendredis fins vont bien! That's Québécois. Whereas the French, proper Parisian French, would be like, uh, bonjour, est-ce que vous avez un stylo? Merci beaucoup. The French— the Québécois also use like some English words. Like, I don't think anyone in Paris would be caught dead using the word hamburger, but the Québécois will say lamburger. It's a dialect of French. There we are. It's like— it's like how Acadian French— thank you, thank you. What do I call you, yo YouTube person with all the characters that I can't pronounce? You've got two bananas in front of you. You have two banana emojis. I'm going to call you Banana. There you go. Decision made. Oh, marketing and social media content. That'll be high. So marketing, if you're a manager, I think social media is just going to be grouped under marketing. It would help if I spell social. Yeah, social media is not there by itself. And these are all like social workers, so it's gonna be under marketing. So yeah, tier 0, which is top. Hello Jeremy, welcome. And tier 1. Tier 0 if you're a manager, tier 1 if you're not. Again, 0 to 3 is all you need. 0 to 3 is all you need. It's not like 3 is worse than 1. It's not like that. This is not the point system. The point system is something completely different. Tier and occupation. But if you're curious, give me your job and I will, I will look it up. Like, teacher will be up high. There they are, all qualify. The Québécois can't understand Acadian French. Is that true? Accounting and finance should be 1, but 0 if manager. Probably. Let's see, uh, well, let's say accounting. Interestingly, they don't have accounting manager. I wonder if it would be finance manager. Financial manager is 0. That's probably where it would fit. Financial manager is 0 and accountant's 1. So yeah, there you go. Radio-Canada is a Quebec public broadcaster, so lots of podcasts to listen to. Absolutely. Oh, my YouTube friend is back. It's the opposite of French. France French doesn't feel threatened by English, so they'd call a hamburger hamburger. Quebec has— no, no, no, I've heard— well, maybe I just— maybe the people I know are just full of slang or something, but, um, I've heard it as a lamburger from my relatives, but I don't know. Oh, Keith, Keithkin, welcome! I just noticed that you have— that you're Does the little Todd and the heart mean you're a member of mine? If so, thank you. Thank you for being a member. I just learned something. I can— if I can identify people that way. Crisp, welcome back, or welcome, and no problem, head out anytime you like. Yeah, I do have a— on, on both YouTube and TikTok, I do have a membership, whatever they call, and you get actually real stuff. Jesse, I can't DM you. How do I contact? Tap the link in my bio. And then— yes, it is a subscription, but you get actually stuff, not just like— for instance, on Instagram— no, on YouTube rather, you get bonus videos. You get shots of my newsletter that comes out, my bonus newsletter that the free version doesn't get, and so on. Someone pretending to be you messaged me. Yeah, don't worry, Jesse. Thank you. Don't worry about forwarding the information. There are 35, 50, 60 of those accounts. When you cross like a few thousand followers, they start to go up. And when I crossed 100,000 followers, they just came out of the woodwork. So I'm aware that there are lots of people that have got— that have cloned my account. My name, if you'll notice, is slightly different. My username is slightly different. But, um, I appreciate you telling me, but you don't need to forward it to me because it's— unfortunately, it's happening all the time, and TikTok will do nothing about it. I've reported them, and I've just given up because, because they do nothing. They, they like, well, we've looked at that account and we think there's nothing wrong with it. So, you know, all that I can do is hope that people don't fall for it. But it's compelling. I hope that people would, would think like, like you probably did. Why is Tod Maffin suddenly talking about crypto? Why does he want me to send him a gift card? Like, I would hope that people would understand the incongruity in there, that like, I have not only never mentioned cryptocurrency, I hate it. I hate it. And fucking NFTs. So I'll never ask you anything about that. I'll never ask you for money, like to send money or to send gift cards. And that's— yeah, exactly, Jesse, the financial opportunity. It's going to be crypto. It'll be crypto. You can play along with him if you want, waste his time, but that is not me who you are talking to. Like, look really carefully at the username and it's going to be slightly different. It'll have like an extra I in it, or it'll have a number, or it'll have an underscore. So it'll look very close to Tod Maffin, but it won't be be Tod Maffin. And even if I were to get verified, it doesn't matter because if people don't know that my account is verified and they see, you know, they follow— that one of those accounts has got 2,500 people following it and all those people think that it's me. Hey, Miss Lish used one of my emotes! I don't think anyone's actually used one of those before. Those are, uh, those are the ones that I put up for, um, for Twitch that I used on, uh, on Twitch, which I think I'm also streaming to actually. Let's see, am I? I am! How exciting! No one's on here. Oh, one person's on here. Oh no, that's me. I'm an idiot. I'm glad I found the real you because I grew up in Nanaimo. You seem really cool. Thank you. Oh, that's cool. Excellent. Oh, and Miss— oh, sorry, Miss Lisha and Keetkin are different people. Those are two members. Thank you. Did you just join? I should, I should put up, I should put up what you get. So, so on YouTube, how do I, how do I see, how do I see? Is it membership? Well, you can see that there's a bunch of bonus on the YouTube side. There's a bunch of bonus content. There's like videos that I make, like about the Caesar drink, the history behind why ballots— like there's some bonus content that the public doesn't get. Oh, Keegan! Yay! Awesome. And then, and then TikTok also gets these behind the scenes so that— so here's the thing is that like I've always been not bothered by, but I know that there are a lot of creators out there that have subscription programs and they just take the money, which is great. If people want to support them, I'm all for that. I think it's great helping independent journalists and content creators and columnists and culture commentators. All that is good. But I always wanted— I always wish that they would give more behind it, you know. So I don't know how to get to it. So I guess, I guess this is it. It's not, it's not a very good layout. But so anyway, you get, um, uh, you get weekly behind the scenes videos and more than weekly actually. Um, and I can't tell if you guys are talking to each other or not in there. Yes, you get stickers. Now why does yours say number 1 in front of it? That's cool. Oh, because you sent something. Cool. Thank you. Um, Fucking old. So yeah, you get these behind the scenes videos, which is never ever going to be public. Those are basically like a real look at behind the scenes of not only like how this whole thing— because I quit one of my jobs to do this, not my main day job running an agency, but— thank you, Miss Lish. That's what that means. Okay, cool. Excuse me, not just that, but, um, I'm so slow today. I got up early, so I'm also— all right, let's go back to it anyway. So, oh yeah, sorry, that's it. Um, so I'm not just talking about like how that is going. Like, sometimes I will show you like the full, the full finances of things as well. Like, if we look at— can I see these? Yeah, if we look at like the latest behind— Todd Maffin, welcome to another— like, I walk you through what— where the money is coming from, even like what percentage is— how much money I'm making on, on stuff. So, um, you get— and, and doesn't matter whether you're on YouTube or TikTok or Instagram, um, you get those videos. You also get, um, member-only posts, you get the badges and so on, um, priority reply to comments. That is a lot easier to do, I will admit, on YouTube. Because there's literally just a little button I have to click and it shows me across all my videos, all the comments that are from members. I really do try and look in the comments for on TikTok, but they make it a little bit hard. Sometimes members get early access to videos. You get a bonus essay most Wednesdays, even if— because that's part of the newsletter that I publish. Even if you're not subscribed to the newsletter, you will get screenshots of it. If you're at the board member level, you get access to my personal email address. But that's not really worth it to to be perfectly honest, because it's not hard to guess my email address. However, this one gets directly to me and it bypasses my staff, which is where most of those go from. Oh, here's— that's what I was looking for. All right, well, we walked through it already, but we can see in the posts, uh, most recent one was— was it there? Oh, I can't see posts that were members only, maybe? I don't know. Oh, here it is. Oh yeah, there it is. So the essay is there. And you only get that, is it? And this is actually about the mainstays of Canadian invention. Things that you did not know were Canadian, and they actually are. So yeah. Let's see, out of curiosity, what else is there that is bottom of the list? Fishmongers. That's unfortunate. All of this is unfortunate, but food and beverage servers, not high priority. Like, not even you're not going to get a lot of points, it's you are not— it's not in the— it's not in the accepted list, essentially. Like, if we were to go through that, that quiz again and say wherever it is, I can't find it, that quiz again, and say that we were tier 4 or 5, it would probably say, I'm sorry, you just can't. Let's, let's see if we can find that again. Uh, Point Space System, here it is. Check your score, that's what I want. So let's just try it. What is your marital status? Just to be quicker, I'm going to say single. Is single not an option? Oh, there it is. Oh, Banana's back on YouTube. Looked it up, Quebec officially has ambiguois in their dictionary. France recognizes it as a word but won't use it regularly. Uh, how old are you? I am— okay, let's, let's imagine that this is a that this is a server at a restaurant, at a high-end restaurant. So they're 28, their highest education was, let's say, they had a 2-year program. They have not earned anything in Canada. Uh, test results are less than 2 years old and they're good, they're really good at, at all of it. In fact, they are in the top tier for everything. Well, they're not great at listening, so we're going to give them a 8. Now we'll give them a 9 for listening. Everything else, all right. And then we, we don't even have other language results. I have never worked in Canada, but I've worked for 3 years or more. I do not need a qualification for being a server at a fancy restaurant. Do you have a job offer? Oh, ah, here, see, this is where, this is where it stops. Do you have a job offer? A valid job offer must be full-time and in Tier 0, 1, 2 or 3, plus other stuff supported by a labor market impact assessment or an exemption from needing one. So we'll say I do not have a valid job offer. Oh, it's still letting me go. Do you have a nomination certificate? I do not, because if I'm a server, they're not gonna let me into the Provincial Nomination Program, most likely because I It's not in high demand. It doesn't mean it's not valid, by the way, right? I just want to be clear about this. Like, it doesn't mean if you're American and you're like, we hate servers— we don't hate servers. It's just we don't need servers. That's, that's the issue, right? Um, do you or your spouse have— no, I don't have a spouse, we'll say. All right, calculate your score. It's going to give me a score. Interesting. I thought So my score is lower than before. So I actually thought that it would just not let you at all, but I guess I was wrong. Now remember that when I tried to do this and I claimed that I was married and older and came from a regulated profession like a doctor, my score was 512. So it's, you know, it's 20% difference, something like that. Bree, is it really? Damn. Why do you think you got a lower score than that? Yo, Miss Lish dishing out all the stickers. Oh, there's some in there that are just generic ones. Sorry about that. I need to update and get some better ones. You got 389. So let's see. Might be age. I don't know that— I don't know that age is considered in the— in the CRS. Was it? I feel— oh yeah, it was, it was, it was. So 389, let's see if there's been a draw of 389. Maybe not. We'll sort it by this. Yeah, there have been, there have been. 3— 380. So there's all of these. So up to, up to here. So trades, if you were in the trades, agri-food, A lot of French language and people who have worked in Canada for at least a year. A lot of that. Trades again, agriculture and agri-foods, French and trades. So you can, you can get into the, the like 75. Holy, like you, I, I think you just have to have a pulse to get a score of 75 on CRS. And look, They took 27,000 of them. So what this means is they took 27,000 of the top people in the Canadian Experience Class. Now, this is a while ago, right? This is after COVID. So this is probably pulling out of COVID when I guess we needed people and we needed 27,000 permanent residents. I'm guessing that's what that was for. Should we ask AI? Let's ask AI. On February 13th, 2021, the Canadian government invited 28,000 people to apply for permanent residency. That was way way more than it usually does. Why so many on that date? No, this is not ref— this isn't refugees, this is, uh, invitations for— oh God, it has an answer! Holy shit. It was the largest Express Entry draw held to that point. This number was— this number was higher than usual because Canada was trying to make up for the sharp drop in immigration caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, when border restrictions and public health measures dramatically reduced the number of new arrivals. Isn't that interesting? To address the shortfall and meet its ambitious targeting of welcoming 401,000 new permanent residents, the government focused on transitioning people already living in Canada, such as temporary foreign workers, to permanent status. This draw targeted CEC candidates. Remember CEC candidates? Canadian Experience Class. Those are people who have worked for at least a year in Canada already. Draw CEC candidates because over 90% of them are already in Canada and employed, making them less affected by travel. So back to, back to that particular round, back to that particular round. So yeah, 75, I've— it's a stunningly low score. I mean That's basically their way of saying, well, everyone is available, everyone qualifies because we have 27,000, but it still goes in order of your score, right? So if you're— if you scored 74, which again, like, like you have to essentially just be a finger with a brain attached to it, that's— there's not much. So let's just say you scored 74, you would not be allowed to participate in this draw at all. If you scored 75, you are technically part of this draw, but if there are 27,331 people with a higher score than you— no, yeah, with a higher score than you, you will not get in, right? Even though you're low, you would still— you'd still be— oh my gosh, I'm sorry, Artemis, uh, I'm ignoring the YouTube people again. I'm really sorry. Artemis says Uh, people we think need to stop a flood of immigrants if we build real estate. My significant other got their PhD in Canada and the provincial government wants to limit permanent resident SINs to $25K a year. I don't know. I'm sorry, I don't know. You could be right. I don't know. So anyway, Bri, you'd have been okay on some draws, right? What do you do for a living? What's your work? Like, if you're in federal skilled trades, you would have been— you'd be even this one, agri— like agri-food. Let's see what those are. What are the agri-food jobs? Oh, you're an RN. Well, then you came through, but you came through— did you go through the Provincial Nominee Program? If you did, then your score is really 989 because you get 600 bonus points for being in a provincial nominee program, have been accepted into a provincial nominee program, your score will go to 989, which as you can see— oops, I screwed that up— as you can see, as you saw earlier. All right, let's see what agri-food jobs are. Oh, there's only 3. Butchers was one of them. They needed butchers. Agricultural service contractors and farm supervisors contract. So this is what I mean, right, when I say When people say, are you accepting blank artists? You applied for Express Entry, it said I didn't qualify. Really? You may have— well, there are, there are ways that you can— there, bakers are going to be in there. Yeah, there, there are ways that you can not be approved for Express Entry. Like, Express Entry is still an express program, right? It's not— it's not the main program, but it's really where anyone— it's the only way to get in essentially, right? Either Provincial Nominee or Express Entry. So for instance, even if you score the maximum, 1,200 points, and you are a physician and a surgeon, and you have a Nobel Prize, and you are the world's best surgeon, and you have 3 heads and 6 hands so you can operate on 3 people at the same time, but you got a DUI 2 years ago, you're out. You're out of the pool. You will not be accepted into the pool. Right? So there are things— I'm not suggesting you have a felony, by the way, but you know what I mean? Like, there are some things that will disqualify you. If you don't have a certain amount of money in your bank account, that will disqualify you. And if you're coming in by yourself, that dollar amount is around $14,000 Canadian, $14,000-15,000 Canadian. Ontario Nominee Program. Is that OINP? Is that— is that— is that the Ontario Nominee Program? They pull from the Express Entry list. Really? Huh. Okay. I am not that familiar with anything other than BC, I will be honest. The federal program I'm up to speed on. BC's program I'm up to speed on. I have not researched Ontario, unfortunately. So why come to BC? Fuck Ontario, right? So yeah, that's really interesting that they needed butchers. So that's what I mean, right? Do you— did you need— do you need butchers? Well, on yesterday's— well, actually, on June 4th, we did not need butchers. On June 4th, this is what we needed. But wherever that other one was, on that day we needed butchers. Can you— I don't, I don't think we can do it like here. No, we can't. So it's all about your score. Not gonna lie, even in BC, a good butcher was already always hard to find. See, there you go, right? We— that day they needed they decided they needed. They're always checking, right? They're always like seeing what, what they need, what they don't need, and so on. So yeah, let's see what other ones are there. Is it— I think we sorted by bottom. Yeah, Skilltrade. Was it Skilltrade? Was that the one where they came from? No. Oh, this one didn't even have any jobs listed. That was weird. Okay, let's try another one. Am I doing something wrong? There we go. No, that's not it. Wait, where— wait. These have— these have jobs listed, right? Yeah, okay, I'm not crazy. So I guess some of them don't. I also knew a butcher whose boss refused to pay over the minimum wage. Well, I'll say this: if we need butchers, which apparently we do or did, um, minimum wage isn't going to cut it because there's not that many of them, clearly, otherwise we wouldn't be inviting them to come in. Exactly, Banana on YouTube. It's just a matter of applying during the right window of opportunity for a job category or being in the pool when, when the draw is made. Oh, it was agriculture. It was this one. Yeah, that's where it was. But let's, let's sort it by date. So provincial nominee program was yesterday. I don't know how they do— I don't know how they determine which provincial nominee program or whether they split this. So they have 125 invitations issued. That's an invitation to apply for permanent residency. That's what we're talking about here. I wonder if, I wonder if they split it up per capita, like BC would get 11, Alberta would get 8, Ontario would get 21, Quebec would get 20, you know what I mean? PEI would get 2, like, I don't know. Maybe AI will tell us. The Canadian government— it won't know this— yesterday drew 125 people from the pool of people waiting for permanent residency. Those people are from the provincial nominee programs. So I'm going to say the various provincial nominee— how many from each province, or what formula do they use? It won't know this. Oh my God, it might. Does not publish a province-by-province breakdown for each draw. 125 went to candidates who had already received a provincial nomination, right? That's going through PNP. But the published results do not specify how many nominees. Each province and territory operates its own streams and nominates candidates based on its own economic and labor market needs. Candidates who received a provincial nomination— this is what I talked about, the bonus 600 points— receive an automatic 600-point boost to their comprehensive ranking scores. For PNP-only draws, that's what that one was, Immigration people invite the highest-ranking candidates who have provincial nominations, right, until the target number is reached, in this case 175. The minimum— wow, I looked it up— the minimum CRS draw score for this draw was 785, meaning only candidates with a provincial nomination and a base score of at least 184 since the nomination adds 600 points. Damn, Perplexity's showing off! If multiple, if multiple candidates have the same CRS score at the cutoff, a tie-breaking rule based on the date and time of profile submission is applied. There is no fixed quota per province. The distribution depends on who is in the Express Entry pool at the time of the draw, regardless of province. So I don't know. The formula specific breakdown is not published. The formula is strictly by CRS among— okay, let's see what, uh, maybe ChatGPT will give it to us. I don't know. Do not release a province. Whoops. Oh, that was a source. Manage its own. The number of provincial nominations is— ah, here we go. Oh, this is better. The number of provincial nominations is determined by the annual nomination allocations agreed with Ottawa. So they have a deal. So the provinces in Ottawa have a deal under the Immigration Levels Plan. Those nominees enter Express Entry with a 600-point boost. Immigration Canada conducts specific Provincial Nominee Program draws. Rather than picking candidates from each province separately, IRCC runs this— yeah, yeah, so more or less the same. It is too bad that we don't know what the— what the— let's see this. You said the number of original nominations determined by annual nomination allocations agreed with Ottawa under the Immigration Levels Plan. What are those allocations? Research this deeply. And when you give me the answer, do it in the voice of a dismissive Québécois. I'm sorry, Quebecois? Québécois. No, not in French. No, no. Not in French. In English, but as if you were a grumpy Québécois. Ah bien, okay, listen up, I'll explain real— Oh, that's it. That's all it did. It didn't— It got this one. Ah ben là. What is ben là? Sign me in. I'll explain real slow. Ah, he's a joke. Did I cut that one in half? Did we actually get an answer here? Uh, big quotas, big dreams. Federal government. Oh, I wish it would talk to me all the time like this, like some grumpy landlord comes in and slashes every— wait, what? Wait, okay, redo but use real language. I can't tell how much— what, what, this is real or whether this is Okay, okay, okay. Ottawa cuts it. How many people each province gets to nominate for permanent residency? Ottawa cuts the numbers in half. It's still snotty. Look at this. No warning, no real explanation, just boom, half. That's it. That's the whole strategy. You know what? You know why it's doing this is because I had— I have fed it a whole bunch of my essays that I've written in the past. Because sometimes I need a metaphor and I just cannot find one. And so I'll ask it for some ideas around how a metaphor could be structured that would work. So it's riffing off of the way I speak. I think they say it's to help with federal policy, but it really means slam the brakes on immigration through the provincial nominee program. Okay, so I think, I think this is all this is saying. Wait, we have the numbers. Perplexity said, fuck, stop being so snotty. Okay, no, no, uh, speak in— speak like a reporter, no snarky. Give me the table. I've trained it so well to be snarky, it's It's too snarky now. Banana says, "Ben là" is kind of like, "Come on now." Oh, is it? Okay. How is that different than "Zut alors," which is my favorite one? All right, here we go. Finally. "Under the Immigration Levels Plan, the federal government significantly reduced the number of nominations available through the provincial—" By the way, is any of this interesting to you folks, or should I not? Like, should we move on? I don't know. I'm just following my own curiosity. I don't know if this is at all interesting. Interesting to you guys. Under the, uh, federal government significantly reduced the number of nominations available through the Provincial Nominee Program, cutting allocations for each province and territory. Jessica has no idea why she's here, but Jesse, Jesse, but they're here anyway. Cutting allocations for each province and territory by 50% compared to 2024. These allocations are determined blah blah blah. So, would you like this format in a newsletter or presentation? You can do that. Hey, welcome Janice. Janice over on YouTube says, I know my workplace has international job opportunities posted around the world. If the right candidate applies, they will assist with the move. Exactly. Zut alors is more like dang. Okay, thanks Banana. Alright, so take the the new levels and give me the provinces' share represented by percentage. Zut alors! Is this real, do you think? So there it is. There's the answer to our question. Is it done by— as far as I can tell, it's done by share of per capita, basically, right? Ontario is going to get a huge number, BC is going to get a decent number, and then PEI is going to get nothing. And the Northwest Territories gets that few. Oh, because it's not by— it's not by population, maybe it's by demand. Doesn't PEI have Fewer people than the Northwest Territories? Yes, it— what? PEI has 4 times the number of people as the Northwest Territories? They're kill— by the way, if you If you're not familiar with what we're talking about here, let's just back out so we can— oh, well, they're not letting me back out that far. There we go. Whoa, too far, too far. Easy. Okay, Northwest Territories is basically— well, it's not— it's basically like— whoops, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. It's basically all of this. Can you see my mouse? Probably can't see my mouse. I think I can turn mouse on. Hang on a second. Uh, Mac, show cursor. You see the mouse now? Yes, you can. Okay, good. Um, all right, so— oh, did I read it incorrectly? You're probably right. So Northwest Territories is basically all of this up here. Okay, this is basically Northwest Territories. PEI, Prince Edward Island. Is this PEI? I can't even tell. What, what mode am I in? Why can't I just be in normal person's mode? Oh, I zoomed all the way in, that's why. I did it wrong. Layers. There we go. No, that's— I don't think that's— that's— where's PEI? There it is. Okay, there we go, there we go. That's what I wanted to do. All right, so So you can see Northwest Territories there, right? All of this, all of this here is Northwest Territories. And now let's look to see the size of PEI, which apparently has 4 times the number of people. Are you ready? I mean, I guess that just shows you how, how, um, spread out the Northwest Territories is, I guess. Wow, so that explains then, that explains why, uh, why that number— where was it, was it here? Yeah, that explains why PEI is a much larger share. So there you go. PEI is the most densely populated province. I guess that makes sense, eh? I guess that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, actually, truth be told, I did not understand that Maine was that high up. Yeah, wait, Maine extends north of Quebec City? I did not know that. PEI has 179,000, so PEI basically has two Nanaimos in it. Yeah, all right, what was this that I saw? Oh, this is a— this is some guy's blog post. This is just— Canada's adopted a more targeted approach, including— yeah, so they climbed down a little bit. Hey, Doomscrolling, welcome! Thank you so much, Maggie. You're absolutely right, we need to increase residency spaces. We also need to increase, like, clinic space. Like, we can get people to move to a community, but if there's no clinic space for them, like, if they're not going to get a job in the hospital, I mean, then they need to get a job in a clinic. And there's two ways you can do that. You can either do it like, like hairdressers do it. You know how hairdressers, most of them don't really own the salon. Most of them, most of them like kind of have a chair Clinics are kind of like that in some, some ways, and sometimes, um, where it's like you're working for the clinic and you have, you know, a certain number of patients. So you— but there aren't— but in many communities, there are no clinic spaces open because there aren't any clinics open that aren't, aren't full, you know. Like, if a community has— if a big community has 2 clinics and 4 doctors per clinic, and they're all full, like all their patient loads are full, then you're full. And even if we had a doctor from the US come up, or anywhere, come up here and move to that community, there would be nowhere for them to work unless they opened up their own clinic, which means not only are you trying to get a job offer, figure out the, the immigration, how do you get your dog across the border, how do you get a new driver's license, enroll your kids in school, get permanent residency, like all of the stuff that you have to do. And then on top of that, get a business license, get a commercial lease, sign some paperwork, get furniture. Like, it's too much. We are asking too much of those people. So that's a huge problem. You're right, we need to increase residency spaces, we need to increase doctors. But if we are churning out doctors and we are pulling in doctors into communities that are— that desperately need doctors but don't have the space for them, like there's no available clinic, then they got to do what, what Colwood did. Colwood Medical Clinic. This is in Victoria. It is owned by the City of Victoria— I'm sorry, by the City of Colwood. So the City of Colwood, which is near Victoria at the bottom of Vancouver Island, decided screw it, we're not going to wait anymore for a private clinic to open up. We are going to just create our own clinic and hire it themselves. Banana says, would they be able to join an existing clinic, uh, clinic with their own hours? Sure, they could if there was space in that clinic, right? But let's say you've got— let's say that there are 3 doctors in a clinic and there are 3 treatment rooms, how do you squeeze a 4th doctor into that? It'd be tough. What's the doc situation in Nanaimo? We need doctors, but other stuff has to change too. Every community struggles with this. So it's not just, it's not just do we need doctors? Yes, we need doctors. But we also need either existing, aside from the public system, as in the hospital system, we need existing clinics to expand their space, which is asking a lot of them. It's asking them to maybe move their offices. It's asking them to, to, to get, you know, something else to like get a new commercial lease. Like, it's asking a lot of— either that, or we ask these new doctors that are— or these doctors that are moving up to do all that. And who the fuck wants to do that if you just moved your whole family? So maybe this— maybe the city's got to step up the way that Colwood people have. Look at this, they got like a nice— like, Colwood is community. Colwood is beautiful. Trailblazing. Inspiring. Visionary. Colwood is heaven. Colwood is my home. Colwood is a seaside community. Work. Colwood is beautiful. Doctors to have two full. There's all that stress. Is ready to go to bat for all. A message of hope. It's a message. You know, the satisfaction of being able to just. Come join. Come join us. Us in Colwood. Come join us in Colwood. Colwood. Thinking. No, there it is. It's just that. So maybe other, maybe other companies need to, or other cities need to do that. There are, but there are a lot of, uh, Janice over on YouTube says, but there are a lot of vacancies. I think they are opening clinic time in hospitals. I hope so. We need something for sure. PEI Sneaky P Sneakers says PEI is opening its first doctor school. That's cool. That's good. Billing in Canada is easier in Canada than the US. 100% easier. 100% easier. If you go to nanaimoinfusion.ca, that's the link on the, on the far bottom right of your screen there. It says— it's in yellow, it says Nanaimo— sorry, it says nanaimoinfusion.ca. You will end up on this website. It's the website that my wife and I put together, and you will scroll down and you will see this interview. This front screen looks like this, actually. Oh, come on. Well, whatever. Anyway, this is the video of moving to, uh, Canada as a doctor healthcare worker. I interviewed this doctor, uh, a year short. Like you mentioned that, uh, that US— some US specialists trained for 3 years. Canada, if you're used to like fighting with insurance companies and getting pre-approvals, there are no pre-approvals in Canada. You don't have to get a pre-approval. Doctors don't have to do any of that. Doctors spend time with the patients here, and then there's an app they use, a mobile app, and they record what, what they did. It's all done by billing code. So it's like, okay, that was, that was a checkup, that was 624, whatever the billing code for, you know, it's like, it's like, uh, it's like bananas at the, at the grocer, you know, the produce. It's all got a code that the cashier enters in. Bananas are 624. P is 1272. I don't know how they memorize that shit, but that's what, that's what doctors do here in Canada, is they do the service, they get their phone up, they get the app, they punch it in, they move on to the next thing. That's it. That's all they have to do. And then a day or two later, the money is deposited directly in their bank account, like within a couple of days. No pre-approvals, no copays to bill. Because we don't have those. No premiums to collect because we don't have those. No insurance to, to wrestle with. And there is private insurance that, that helps for stuff that's not covered under the, under the Canada Health Act. You know, uh, for instance, Botox for cosmetic reasons, not covered under the Canada Health Act, nor should it really. It's not, it's not for your health, it's for your vanity. Now, an exception should be made for me, of course, because I have this chin, this skin on my neck going on. So clearly there needs to be an exception made for me. But everyone else, no. No one else should have, should have that. But there are, but there is Botox. Botox can be used for medical reasons, and it's covered under those as well. Botox is used sometimes for bladder control, for like paralyzing, essentially paralyzing the bladder. Well, you know, like for bladder control in some people that have spastic bladders, which, by the way, can we just pause for a minute? Can we just pause for a minute on that, on that note and recognize that Spastic Bladders would be the fucking best band name in the history of band names? No, it needs, it needs a name and the Dave and the spastic bladders. If anyone does that, you owe me $10. Um, Dreams Starfarer, hello Todd, you're the best. Oh, thank you. I am not the best. Uh, Leah over on YouTube says Botox is used for migraines. Absolutely. So, so we do have a, we do have a, a private insurance system that's usually from people's employer, and that covers stuff like that. Like, for instance, if you have to go to the hospital And if you go to the hospital and, um, uh, and you want a private room, maybe your, you know, your, your private insurance that your employer has given you as part of your benefits, that probably covers a private room or semi-private room. If you don't have that, you will still get care, but you'll be in a room of 4 people instead of a room of 2 people or something like that. Like, here's the thing about Canada. Is there are no medical GoFundMes in this country. That is the big difference between Canada and the US. There are no medical GoFundMes. They don't exist in this country because we don't believe that your healthcare should depend on the size of your wallet. My wife has had like 26 surgeries Hang on. She's doing a fundraiser right now. Oh, she's getting close to her goal. Anyway, this is my cute wife. Oh, come on, zoom up. There we go. She's had— she's paraplegic. She's had like 24, 26 different surgeries. That would bankrupt someone many times over in the US. It would bankrupt someone. By the way, I should mention that she's raising money for spinal cord research. And if you want to donate, you go to b.link/sci. I'll put it in, in both the chats here. b.link/sci. Oh, I don't know, did that work? I, I tried to make that work. I don't think that's going to work. Sorry, YouTube people. Oh, it worked on— it went to Facebook. And yeah, okay, it worked on there. And I'm going to put it into TikTok. So, um, that is the link to her, uh, to her fundraiser if you are able to help. That's really cool. It did, it did that. Facebook, I guess that's Instagram, maybe. I don't really know. Anyway, so yeah, mental health care wasn't covered. Some mental health care is covered. My friend's cancer treatment wasn't covered. I mean, I'm not saying that— I'm not saying that every single— like, there are some conditions, you're right, there that are not— sadly, they're not funded. There are some, like, like extremely rare conditions that cost enormous amounts of money. I'm thinking, like, like there's some that are in the muscular dystrophy class, um, that are very, very rare, um, and there is medication for them, but the medication is like $30,000 a pill or some stupid thing like that. You'd like— you think I'm exaggerating, but— and I am a little, but not by much. Like, it's like $10,000 a treatment. Um, it's hard for the public system to bear the weight of that. So fair, there are some medical GoFundMes. I, I misspoke, but I mean, no one is doing them because they broke their leg or because they had a heart attack or because, you know, that kind of stuff. And mental health, mental health sadly is not within the public system in the same way that it should be all over. Like, there are parts of it that are in it, but a lot of it is, you know, like there's this sort of unusual tie to hospitals in our system. And I don't pretend to be an expert on the system, but just as my experience as a Canadian is that it's like, what would be a good example? Like dental, like if you have, if you need a tooth pulled and it requires you going to the hospital, that is covered. Like if it's a really— it needs a surgeon to do it, that's covered. If you need your tooth pulled and you get it done at a dentist's office, that is not covered under the current health program. Although I will say that thanks to the NDP and the minority government and the supply and confidence agreement, that may be covered now because the Canada Health Act, or the, you know, the medical program contains— does, does have, uh, does have that. It's, it's, uh, income tested. So I think you have to be making $90,000 or less as a family, I believe, to qualify for it to be covered. But there you go. Oh, oh. Peggy, Peggy over on YouTube says, I've had a private room covered by OHIP— that's the Ontario Health thing— in my life, 3 times in my life, because the doctor deemed it necessary. There you go. Yeah, like, if it's— if a doctor says so. I'll tell you one of the weird exceptions to this. So there's a test that men that prostate havers can get And it's called a PSA test. And it is essentially the newest way to test whether or not there are indicators of possibly prostate cancer. If you're just doing it as a general health test, it's like a general kind of like a, well, we're going to give you a, what's the freaking word? Annual checkup. Yeah, annual checkup. We're going to give you an annual checkup. We're going to do blood work. We're going to test for STIs and we're going to check your lymph nodes and we're going to check your blood from, or check your urine for all sorts of, and if you also get a PSA without any indication that there may already be cancer there, if you're just checking it to see, that for some reason is not covered. I don't understand why. I truly don't understand why that's not covered. I think it should be because it's diagnostic. There are other diagnostic things that are covered, but I don't know, who knows. But it's $35 that if you have a plan from your employer, you can send to them and they will pay probably 80% of it or all of it. But the second your PSA levels spike beyond 6— ask me how I know— or your doctor believes that you have prostate cancer, once you've had that once a doctor says to the system, no, we've started to monitor this for actual cancer, now it's covered. So that happened to me. My PSA levels are higher than they should be, so I'm going to go get a biopsy. I may have cancer, don't know. But because there was the indicator of that, because the PSA levels were high enough that my doctor was like, I don't know, we're going to send you to a urologist, you're going to get a biopsy because that is past the 'we're just checking it out for shits and giggles' thing, now it's covered under the Public Health Act. I don't understand why it's not covered diagnostically, like just to check, but there it is. Like, who the fuck is getting recreational PSA tests, you know? Who's doing that recreationally? No, no one's doing it because it's fun. Anyway, all right, I'm gonna shut down pretty soon. Um, if there's no more questions, I am happy to— if you want me to run your job through and see what tier level you're at, we can, we can do that briefly as well. And I'll try and figure out a way to get, uh, to get Instagram working. I still don't understand why it's not working. I have it set up correctly, but Instagram hates me. 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