Recruiting 800 Americans is a nice talking point after your government put thousands of our own health care workers on the street. FOI and ministry numbers show about 2,500–2,700 BC health care workers were terminated over the COVID vaccine mandate, including roughly 779 nurses. That’s before early retirements and people who simply left rather than comply. You created the shortage, then spent millions poaching from the U.S. and framed it as a morality play about Trump. On people leaving the province, net interprovincial migration turned negative in 2023–2024 (thousands more leaving than arriving, with Alberta the main destination). Housing, taxes, and the cost of living did that, not a campaign slogan. Fix the system you broke for the people already here before you lecture anyone about “choice.”