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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is aiming to cut 20,000 jobs at agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Scientists overseeing cancer research, vaccine and drug approvals, public health and tobacco regulations are also among 10,000 already laid off. Public health experts say the mass firings could have catastrophic impacts for the U.S. and the world.
“Some of the top public health experts in the world just lost their jobs,” said former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden.
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This is good. As a Canadian citizen I was shocked that Canada had no facilities to work on and produce a covid vaccine during the recent pandemic. I thought we were more modern than that.
(I say this naive of all sorts of things, but…) I wish Canada would do something bold and actively court all these high-skill people who are probably interested in jumping ship. Make it easier for whole companies to move and bring their employees, make it easy for entrepreneurs to start a business serving this new migration, relax some tax rules for those in the process of moving, make it easy for extended family to tag along, make it clear it’ll be easy for them to go back… ehh, and do something about housing.
Then, take out billboards in big cities. Put on events in the US. Partner with Canadian companies to handle logistics for potential employees, etc., etc.
Don’t just go “Hey smart people, come to Canada” and afterwards say “I bet they’ll do smart-people things!” Go for an unprecedented scale migration and actually shape the process for long-term benefit and payoff.
In the past I figured we didn’t do this because we didn’t want to piss off people in the US, but, I feel like who gives a shit now.
My first instinct was the same as yours, bring in the talent.
But what about the Canadian talent? Please don’t take this as anti-immigration or anti-American (outside of the patriotically responsible amount given the current situation …).
How do we balance training and promoting our own and not just shuffling them to the side when there is a glut on the market?
If this was 30 years ago, sure. However, just because Trump is now running the playbook full tilt doesn’t mean our issues from three months ago have disappeared. We don’t have the housing, infrastructure, and jobs for the people who are already here. If the country had not been irresponsible and careless with immigration and housing the last 20 years, we could do that now, but since we are where we are, we can only be selective now.
I agree and wish the same but…
Make it easier for whole companies to move and bring their employees
Any sort of incentive to facilitate immigration right now is radioactive, no matter how beneficial
I hate this. Hire Canadians.
You can apply right now, if it is that important to you. I bet you won’t apply.
You need the Canadians who are trained and available first. We don’t have them. Sure we can start training them but it’ll be decades and they’ll need mentors.
There’s not enough with these specific credentials. We could also hire these people to teach our next generation of scientists. These are highly skilled people and should be sought after the same way sports teams try and sign superstar players.
If bird flu is coming north, you want aa many of these people on your team as possible.
