Brain – Gain project launched to help Canada’s economy

As the number of Canadians, mostly young Canadians who leave the country in the hope of getting experience in both academic as well as experience, the number of Canadians who return home have the experience and the knowledge help others in their country and create employment opportunities for the fellow Canadians.

The situation started long ago through some Christian missions in the 19^th century which brought a spirit of cooperation among everyone and helped in the promotion of social justice. And Canada is among the first countries to help promote a spirit of cooperativeness to the government and the non-government organizations that started way back in the 1960s when the government gave a grant to a volunteer-sending organization that brought Canadians abroad to get experiences and to help other Canadians in their return home based on the experience they gained in the process.

The government’s strategy in getting Canadians to come back home

Today, as the situation of Canadians going abroad to gain experiences academically as well as job-oriented experiences, the Canadian government has come up ways in luring them to come home and to serve the country and help economic growth.

The “brain-gain” pilot project

The strategy is termed as the “Brain-Gain” program. This program helps native high-skilled Canadian workers that have been away from home and have married non-Canadian people to return to Canada together with their non-Canadian spouse as well as the whole family and help lay a foundation of a long-term economic growth for the country.

This is a pilot project started in Ontario in the hope of getting skilled workers with permanent residence in Ontario can return home together with their families and work for the government. Other non-Canadian people that can apply to the pilot project are the spouses, common-law partners and dependent children that are old enough to work that are sponsored by spouses or parents that are permanent residents of Ontario and are returning home to work as a health professional, or an academic individual for post-secondary public institution in Ontario, since the province has suffered shortages in the health and academic sectors in the recent years.

Occupations that are offered in the pilot project

The open occupations for returning Canadians and their families are positions for health care professionals, specialist physicians, general practitioners as well as people who practice family medicine, dentists, veterinarians, optometrists, chiropractors, pharmacists, dieticians and nutritionists, nurses, licensed practical nurses, medical laboratory technologists, technicians and pathologist’s assistants as well as other health diagnosing and treating professionals, other professions in therapy and assessment, university professors, post-secondary education for public institutions, post-secondary teaching and research assistants and college and other vocational instructors.

The pilot project will operate in May 22, 2012 and is in partnership with the government of Canada and the province of Ontario.