Provinces are turning to U.S. health-care workers to help with shortages. And it’s working
Canadian provinces are successfully recruiting U.S. health-care workers to address domestic staffing shortages, with thousands of nurses and doctors moving north. The recruitment is driven by both professional opportunities and concerns among U.S. workers regarding the political and social climate in the United States.
Why it matters
This trend highlights the impact of cross-border labor migration on public health systems and the influence of social-political environments on professional mobility.
He was working in Minnesota at the not-for-profit Mayo Clinic Health System and the Olmsted Medical Center. But in 2025, Tyson says he became increasingly concerned about the deterioration of health care, as well as tighter immigration enforcement .
Then ICE agents arrested a patient as they were leaving a primary care appointment where he worked, Tyson says.
“That was definitely a wake-up call," he said. "And I am married to a U.S. permanent resident that was born in Bolivia … and it scared the crap out of me for him and for the others in that situation,” Tyson told Dr. Brian Goldman, host of CBC’s White Coat, Black Art .
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