Ottawa Providing $86 Million for Foreign Accreditation Plan to Tackle Healthcare Labour Shortage

Published on January 16, 2024

Ottawa announced an $86 million investment in its foreign credential recognition program to address the healthcare professional labour shortage in Canada. The funding will accelerate foreign credential recognition so that approximately 6,600 internationally educated health professionals can join the country’s workforce, Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault said during a Jan. 15 press conference in Winnipeg. Canada’s healthcare sector continues to have a high level of job vacancies, with a total of 90,000 unfilled positions in health occupations as of last year, Mr. Boissonnault said. The investment is a bid to address long emergency room wait times and the shortage of family physicians, nurses, midwives, paramedics, respiratory therapists, and medical laboratory technologists....

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