The Polish immigrant arrived in Quebec six years ago and earned a chartered accounting diploma from McGill University. Rezler is only a month away from completing the hours required to become a certified chartered accountant. Not according to Rezler. Many people who enter Canada through Quebec choose later to move on. A big reason for much of the 1990s was uncertainty about Quebec's status in Confederation.
Professional barriers are another problem.
Quebec suffers from a shortage of medical and nursing personnel, but tests and bureaucratic requirements make it almost impossible for the foreign trained to work at their previous levels. There is a bright side. Jean Renaud, a director of the Center for Ethnic Studies at the Universite de Montreal, tracked 1,000 immigrants over their first 10 years in Quebec. But, as Krzysztof Rezler will tell you, that is a long time.