Wealthy G7 nation wants to poach nurses from Zimbabwe

The thought leaders at The Globe and Mail had a front pager today about how the evil dictator who rules Zimbabwe is oppressing nurses who’d rather make big bucks working in a rich country like Canada. No shit. Who wouldn’t? On the other hand, here’s a couple of facts to consider. In the depths of Canada’s nurse shortage, we have 10 nurses per 1000 population. Due to decades of underfunding, Canada is a laggard in nurse to pop stats among rich countries. Most of our peers in the G7 are in the 15-18 range. Zimbabwe has 2 nurses per 1000 population. Yup, that’s where we should be recruiting nurses! Bear in mind that Canada has a GDP per capita over $50k. In Zimbabwe, it’s under $2k. How does that jive with Canada's much trumpeted "feminist" foreign policy? Women and girls in Zimbabwe don't need nurses and midwives? We should be ashamed of ourselves.