As premiers and the prime minister gather in Ottawa this week to talk about health-care funding, an example of a federally-imposed rule hampering ...
Grant says the two U.K. doctors can’t buy houses because of the new act and there are no available rentals meeting their requirements. Furthermore, without the ability to buy, the psychiatrists can’t reasonably relocate their families to Canada.
Doctors Nova Scotia president Dr. Leisha Hawker told SaltWire, “I understand there are several exemptions from the ban and, unfortunately, international graduates health-care providers that are trying to come to Nova Scotia weren’t included in that exemption.”Heather Grant, realtor with RE/MAX Park Place Inc. in Sydney:"We've got two potential psychiatrists coming into town from the UK and ... they can't buy houses.
“It's a long time. It's ridiculous. They won't stay,” she said. “There is no chance that a family will stay here ever for three years living in a rental, in an apartment somewhere with two to three kids in a bedroom. It's just never gonna happen.” “There is no chance that a family will stay here ever for three years living in a rental, in an apartment somewhere with two to three kids in a bedroom. It's just never gonna happen.”There is no question that both housing and health-care providers are in short supply in Atlantic Canada right now, so it is disappointing a measure brought in to alleviate one is exacerbating the other.
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