I have not yet landed in Canada and hence, my views could be immature. But I think that each country has its own systems and ways, which must be respected before one could succeed there.
I am from Pakistan and I spent 21 years of my life, getting myself educated and eventually making myself worthwhile do good in my field of education, in my country. I was brought up for that number of years to understand, accept, adopt and apply the social and cultural values, which my country needed. Even after spending such a time, efforts and devolping skills required by my country, it took me some time to get successful there.
Now, I am planning to get settled in a new country. New values, new culture, new requirements, new competition... and new opportunities as well. Why should I expect to get successful in a flash? All I have to do is to understand, understand, understand and then plan well and then eventually execute.
I want to hear failure stories only to understand and pick the points which got them failed. And I want to hear success stories only to understand and pick the points which got them successful. Without thinking to criticize the prevailing systems in Canada, I need to bring myself to the level, which is acceptable there. It could be improving my "Canadian" language skills, getting "Canadian" experience, getting "Canadian" education, developing useful "Canadian" networking or any other "Canadian" requirement. If after doing all this, I am still failed, I would think that I missed out some bits and pieces in the whole process and shall either re-execute it after adding those gaps or shall come back to my country. But I shall not criticize complaining that the country did not offer me anything. The country did offer me, but I was not good enough to grap that offer. I believe that there are opportunities everywhere, and it is on us to get hold of those.
In my opinion, it all goes back to the same old story where a spider tries to climb up the wall, fells down, tries again and again till the time it gets successful, without criticizing the length, structure and material of the wall.
AAJ