I am writing to you today to express my
concerns with the article headlined, Foreign doctors shouldn't
be allowed, in the June 11 edition.
The reporter has taken extreme liberties with
my comments and edited them so much my meaning and true purpose
of the statement was lost. The edited version of my comments
completely changed what I said.
The students at Lively District Secondary
School were discussing bringing Third World doctors to
Canada.
I stated, "I, Stephen Butcher, has a concern
with Canada, one of the wealthiest nations in the world, which
graduates more than 700 doctors each year, bringing immigrant
doctors from Third World or developing nations, where doctors
are in very short supply, into Canada to work as doctors. We
are, in effect, taking doctors from Third World countries where
they are extremely hard to replace."
As well, at no time did I indicate how many
(Canadian) doctors leave for the United States.
Stephen Butcher
Conservative candidate, Sudbury