On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 05:41, Andrew Ho wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > > > > When the UK, Canada or Australia recruits such a person to work in the > > > > UK, Canada or Australia, do they reimburse the South African government > > > > for the cost > > > > > > Double standard you use. > > No. Or rather, yes. Question is WHY a double standard is used. > > Tim believes applying a double standard is the morally right > > thing to do in this particular situation. > > This discussion needs to include consideration of personal freedom and > discrimination (or preferential treatment) based on country of origin.
Indeed, and our argument is that there should NOT be preferential treatment, through active recruitment and assisted migration, of skilled health care professionals from needy countries to wealthy countries. I think we are in violent agreement. -- Tim C PGP/GnuPG Key 1024D/EAF993D0 available from keyservers everywhere or at http://members.optushome.com.au/tchur/pubkey.asc Key fingerprint = 8C22 BF76 33BA B3B5 1D5B EB37 7891 46A9 EAF9 93D0
