Canadian Diplomats Think They Deserve Hazard Pay for Working in The United States – IOTW Report

Canadian Diplomats Think They Deserve Hazard Pay for Working in The United States

The Canadian Press

The union that represents Canadian diplomats abroad says Global Affairs Canada should consider boosting compensation for those posted to the United States because they face increased risk of gun crime and difficulty accessing health care.

Pamela Isfeld, head of the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers, suggested that Ottawa’s appraisals of security threats aren’t as robust for the U.S. as they are for other countries. More

15 Comments on Canadian Diplomats Think They Deserve Hazard Pay for Working in The United States

  1. If it isn’t, perhaps it should be. Vamoose! Fake journalists are getting on a lot of people’s last nerve. We have enough of our own to suffer and don’t need you adding to the problem.

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  2. This “diplomats” are apparently being posted to areas in the US run by politicians that are progressive and therefore aligned by the political world view of those same Canadian diplomats. There is increased crime in many US cities because the progressive Democrats who run those cities defund the police and refuse to enforce laws.

    In other words, these diplomats don’t want to be posted to areas where the local politicians believe as they do. Maybe they should stay away.

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  3. Difficulty accessing healthcare? You gotta be kidding me. My mother, who luckily was still working in Michigan while living in Canada and had health insurance through her job was able to get cancer treatment here in the states. Ontario (Canada) had her on a waiting list and she would have had to drive to London Ontario for treatment which would have been about a one a half hour drive for her each way.

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  4. @Different Tim — For those “diplomats” to gripe about the “difficulty accessing health care” in the U.S. is positively ludicrous. I just took a look at 2023 Canuckistan wait times and found:

    • In 2023, physicians report a median wait time of 27.7 weeks between a referral from a general practitioner and receipt of treatment.

    • Overall, Ontario reports the shortest wait across Canada (21.6 weeks) while Nova Scotia had the longest (56.7 weeks).

    • Canadians could expect to wait 6.6 weeks for a CT scan, 12.9 for an MRI scan, and 5.3 weeks for an ultrasound.

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  5. The Cdn. diplomats could protect themselves by being armed in the US, but not so much in Canada. They have foolishly given up that right.

    Just as the Brits did 100 or so years ago. There were so few guns in the UK that when a German invasion appeared imminent in 1940-41, they asked Americans to send over their private firearms, which our countrymen did without much hesitation.

    Before that, the Brits armed themselves with pitchforks to repel the German Army. LOL.

    I am so disgusted with Canada under Turd-o I will not visit there again until there is a change in gov’t. And roll back those severe gun laws, Canuckleheads!

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  6. When my brother lived in Yuma Arizona, he had a difficult time getting health care for his family, due to all the Canadian snowbirds staying in the Sunbelt and wanting primary care without the long wait.

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