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DESCRIPTION:Journalists and policy experts have recently asserted that Cana
 dian Medicare is in an “unprecedented” crisis\, one that can only be resol
 ved by the licensing of thousands of foreign-trained health care practitio
 ners. Indeed\, the Conservative Party of Canada\, which polls suggest is i
 ncreasingly likely to form the next federal government\, has recently unve
 iled a “Blue Seal” proposal to fast-track the licensing of foreign-trained
  doctors and nurses. The goal is to address\, or even to eliminate\, the n
 early six million Canadians who report not having a primary care practitio
 ner. Although this initiative has been framed as a necessary measure to al
 leviate a recent phenomenon\, this talk will argue exactly the opposite: t
 hat Medicare in Canada was conceived and sustained over the last 50 years 
 by the backfilling of underserviced areas and specialties through the lice
 nsing of foreign-trained (and largely foreign-born) practitioners. This pr
 esentation examines the history of Medicare\, demonstrating how the keysto
 ne of Canadian welfare state nationalism was built and sustained by health
  care practitioners who “came from away”.\n
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LOCATION:106\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue Sherb
 rooke Ouest
SUMMARY:[Public Lecture] David Wright\, 'Medicare and Migration -- The Comp
 licated History of Foreign-Trained Doctors and Nurses in Canada'
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