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UnCanadian. Unjust. Unacceptable
Ontario’s Discriminatory Decision to Exclude Immigrant Internationally Trained Physicians from CaRMS 1st Iteration: We’re Calling It Out!
#reversethechange! #openthespots!
After years of ITPC (formerly ITPO) calling for equity and the opening of all residency positions in all specialties to all ITPs, the Government of Ontario has done the exact opposite. Only six weeks before the CaRMS application deadline, the Government of Ontario has imposed a directive that bars immigrant internationally trained physicians (ITPs) from applying in the first iteration of the 2026 residency match.
Only Canadian Studied Abroad (CSAs) but ONLY those who attended high school in Ontario — will be eligible.
Immigrant ITPs, who live, work, and pay taxes in this province, will be forced to wait for the second iteration, when most positions are already filled.
This was not policy improvement.
This was an act of exclusion — deliberate, discriminatory, and devastatingly un-Canadian.
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YOU CAN HELP!
USE ITPC TEMPLATES TO SEND LETTERS OF COMPLAINT!
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Our Message to the Ontario Government
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Reverse this directive immediately — open the first iteration of CaRMS to all qualified ITPs.
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Engage with ITP-led organizations like ITPC to ensure equitable representation in future decision-making.
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Publicly renounce these actions that maliciously segregate a portion of the residents of Ontario & reaffirm Ontario’s commitment to DEI — not through slogans, but through action.
You don’t get to pick and choose when to apply Canadian values.
You can’t quote “diversity, equity and inclusion” in press releases, and then enforce exclusion in practice.
If you truly believe in DEI, walk it — don’t just talk it.
Contacting us from the media?
Email advocacy@itpsofcanada.ca
ITPC Promises
We will not be silent.
We will write. We will speak. We will organize.
We will remind every policymaker that the strength of Ontario’s healthcare system depends on fairness — not favoritism.
We came here because we believed in Canada.
Now it’s time for Canada — and Ontario — to believe in us.
#reversethechange #openthespots
#CallItOut #ThisIsUnCanadian #WalkTheTalk #EquityMeansEveryone #ITPsBelongHere #StopSystemicExclusion #ITPsareCanadianstoo