> >I had heard that Canadian law prohibited hiring a foreign citizen for a
> >job if a qualified Canadian applied;
> >It is a tariff barrier erected c. 1970. All
> Canadian academic job ads are 'directed to Canadian citizens & landed
> immigrants' [ie. 'resident aliens' in US parlance] IN THE FIRST INSTANCE.
> So, job searches are 'two-tier': first the domestic dossiers (no matter
> where they are studying/working); then, if no one in 'tier one' is deemed
> satisfactory, then on to a 'tier two' search: foreign dossiers that had
> arrived on speculation, and/or via a new advertisement (nb. not always done,
> since placing new ads delays a hiring process by several months). Foreign
> applicants are hired (not often, it must be said, in History), but Canada
> Immigration will need to be satisfied that this process has been followed.
This rule can be and has been circumvented if the hiring Department
wishes to do so. At Dalhousie University, several years ago, the
history department conducted its interviews for a British history
position in London fully three months before it commenced "national
advertising" in Canada. The successful interviewee then had over a
year in which to acquire "landed immigrant" status in Canada in order
to be hired. Academics can sometimes pull this off by applying for a
sessional appointment for which the hiring pool is more limited. If
this avenue is closed, perhaps one could arrive in a container,
claiming to be a refugee from "Thatcherism".
Robert Berard