There is some news that falls flat. As soon as they appear, they disappear as if by magic into the great black hole of information. It’s as if everyone, politicians, the media and even the public, are giving each other the word to look elsewhere while waiting for something else to be talked about.
This is a bit like what happened last week with this information revealing that the recruitment campaigns for health personnel that Quebec regularly leads in Africa contribute to further weakening African countries whose health situation is already precarious. .
Against all policies of the World Health Organization (WHO), Quebec has long led recruitment campaigns in countries such as Benin, Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Togo. Last year, he announced that he wanted to recruit 1,000 foreign nurses, most of them African. Often experienced nurses. In a few days, job interviews will begin with candidates from Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Togo, selected as part of the Quebec Sub-Saharan Africa Days. Since 2017, Quebec has recruited more than 1,900 health workers, including many nurses, from 24 countries in Africa, South America and Europe.
Should we conclude that Quebec does not hesitate to participate without restraint in the brain plunder of these poor countries? For example, Cameroon and Benin have respectively less than 2 and 3 nurses per 10,000 inhabitants while, for the same population, Quebec has no less than 77! The WHO is not alone in thinking that this organized looting is unworthy of Quebec. The Association of Moroccan Nurses had already accused Canada of “exhausting the nursing resources of other countries in which there is also a shortage.”
In response, our managers are generally content to look at the toes of their shoes while muttering that they are recruiting… ethically! No one likes to be told the truth, especially not the supporters of mass immigration, who each time claim to come to the aid of suffering humanity. What if this virtuous “immigrationism” was basically just the new face of good old colonialism adorned with a nice humanitarian stamp?
A long time ago, researchers like demographer Emmanuel Todd explained the fact that, in a world where communication leads the way, the plunder of brains had replaced that of natural resources. This “real demographic predation”, he writes, would be even more serious than that of natural resources, because it today “endangers the development of countries which are taking off”.
Among the thousands of migrants who literally invaded the island of Lampedusa last week, no one asked — not even the Pope — how many mechanics, bakers or nurses’ aides are deserting their countries in this way. . The former journalist of Release Stephen Smith, professor of African studies at Duke University in North Carolina, has shown in his studies that, contrary to what the press claims, it is not the poorest who emigrate. They, in general, do not have the means. If necessary, they move to a neighboring country. Those who end up here are those who can afford it and who could therefore best contribute to consolidating the middle class of their country.
In our miserabilist vision of Africa – a vision further aggravated by climate catastrophism – it would not occur to us that the African countries which are progressing, and there are some, urgently need these workers to survive. get out of poverty. In Madagascar, in 2016, while he was distributing scholarships, Philippe Couillard was called to order by the Minister of Higher Education of Madagascar, who told him that most of these scholarship recipients did not never returned to the country. And that they were therefore a dead loss for the island. Beautiful charity than that which only serves the benefactor. That day, Philippe Couillard also looked at his shoes for a long time.
In what political scientist Pierre-André Taguieff calls “the messianic utopia of salvation through immigration” – an evil very widespread in Canada – there is a profound contempt for the people of our countries, who would have no demographic, economic and cultural future by welcoming as many foreigners as possible.
There is also contempt for Africa, because it will always be more rewarding to pour out tears about African misery than to call on these countries to take charge of themselves and to help them do so. What always strikes me about those who swear by this providential immigration is their almost complete disinterest in poor countries. As if the only future of Africans was to pour out in ever greater numbers into our beautiful, large, rich and democratic countries. Don’t you smell a strange scent of colonialism there?