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Canada is collapsing. Economically and morally as it were.
Just as Canada’s immigration system is wracked by revelations of unchecked fraud, it seems to have found time to threaten a Scottish midwife with deportation on the grounds she didn’t sufficiently prove she can speak English.
Heather Gilchrist, 58, speaks English as her mother tongue, and even completed the mandatory $330 certification course to prove as much.
But she told the National Post a technical glitch prevented the certification from reaching immigration authorities, resulting in the surprise withdrawal of her work permit earlier this month.
A March 14 letter from an IRCC case officer told her they weren’t satisfied she could speak English, that her legal status had been withdrawn, and that she had 90 days to leave the country.
“If you do not leave Canada voluntarily, enforcement action may be taken against you,” it reads.
“I had just literally come off an on-call shift,” said Gilchrist, who has been working as a registered midwife in Victoria, B.C., since September.
A 10-year veteran of midwifery in the U.K., Gilchrist first came to Canada in October 2024, and obtained certification as a B.C. midwife after completing a bridging program at the University of British Columbia.
Just as Canada’s immigration system is wracked by revelations of unchecked fraud, it seems to have found time to threaten a Scottish midwife with deportation on the grounds she didn’t sufficiently prove she can speak English.
Heather Gilchrist, 58, speaks English as her mother tongue, and even completed the mandatory $330 certification course to prove as much.
But she told the National Post a technical glitch prevented the certification from reaching immigration authorities, resulting in the surprise withdrawal of her work permit earlier this month.
A March 14 letter from an IRCC case officer told her they weren’t satisfied she could speak English, that her legal status had been withdrawn, and that she had 90 days to leave the country.
“If you do not leave Canada voluntarily, enforcement action may be taken against you,” it reads.
“I had just literally come off an on-call shift,” said Gilchrist, who has been working as a registered midwife in Victoria, B.C., since September.
A 10-year veteran of midwifery in the U.K., Gilchrist first came to Canada in October 2024, and obtained certification as a B.C. midwife after completing a bridging program at the University of British Columbia.
