Why does a wealthy country like Canada poach trained medical professionals from poverty-stricken third-world countries?

That's an easy one! Because it's way cheaper than educating our own! What are ya, stoopid? I got triggered by a story at CBC celebrating a couple of TV shows, "the Pitt," and "St. Denis Medical." What makes these shows celebration-worthy, is that Filipino health-care workers are finally being represented in popular culture. That's a happy thing! But here's what disturbs me. We've completely normalized the international brain drain that sucks the brains out of poor countries and relocates them in wealthy Western countries. That's just wrong. Look at the stats on the nurses that are the focus of the above shows. Canada has a GDP per capita of over $50k per year. We have, according to the latest numbers from the World Bank, more than 10 nurses per thousand population. The Phillipines has a GDP/capita of less than $4k, less than 10% of Canada's. They have less than half the nurses per thousand population of Canada. In other words, if we have a nursing shortage, their's is obviously more than twice as accute! Yet it's considered a happy thing that, instead of investing the money required to train our own health care workers, we prefer to lure them away from countries that need them way more than we do. That's disgusting!