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POPULAR EDUCATION
What is systemic discrimination?
Systemic discrimination is reflected in the multiple legal and regulatory barriers that the majority of workers (lawyers, engineers, nurses, doctors, etc.) with foreign degrees face, with respect to certain professional orders. These are barriers arising from the application of (obsolete) laws regulating certain professional orders. These are systemic barriers (not to be confused with systematic) aimed at restricting access to certain regulated trades and professions in Quebec.
Here are a few testimonials of employment discrimination that have occurred in Quebec and an attempted response from the authorities:
What are systemic barriers?
Here is an example of a systemic barrier caused by the access control body of the College of Physicians of Quebec, complicating the process to become a doctor in Quebec:
Do you think you are in a similar situation?
Here is what the Complaints Commissioner can do for you directly, or feel free to use the services of The Immigrant Voice (TIV).
Here is a useful tool to help you advocate for your rights:
Equip yourself to better defend your rights:
Finally, you may also need the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms:
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Here are some other useful links:
What is the foundation of The Immigrant Voice mission?
The Immigrant Voice (TIV), an organization dedicated to the collective defense of rights, bases its mission on article 17 of the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms which stipulates:
“No one may practice discrimination in respect of the admission, enjoyment of benefits, suspension or expulsion of a person to, of or from an association of employers or employees or any professional order or association of persons carrying on the same occupation.”
The mission of The Immigrant Voice is to defend the rights of workers with foreign credentials, and victims of systemic discrimination by certain professional orders in Quebec.
These are two very different paths; one simplified for graduates from Canadian and American universities, and the other complicated when graduating from a foreign university.
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