Scottish mid­wife faces deport­a­tion from Canada over Eng­lish cre­den­tials

[From at least 1965, the Laurentian elite’s game plan is to replace Canada’s European founding/settler people with a Third World majority. Back in Pierre Trudeau’s time, immigration offices in the British Isles and Europe were closed — don’t want too many of THOSE sorts of people. Offices were opened in India and elsewhere. Recently, the Auditor-General reported as many as 150,000 fraudulent student visa applications in the invasion facilitated by son Justin Trudeau. The Immigration department was swamped, overwhelmed but, instead of shutting the doors, they simply threw up their hands. Not so with Scottish midwife Heather Gilchrist, a hardworking expert gainfully employed in Victoria. She is about to be deported because of a mix-up over her English language qualifications. You read that right: her English language qualifications. A hardworking, competent White Scot is not the sort of person our elite wants in Canada and, so, they are turfing her out.]

Scot­tish mid­wife faces deport­a­tion from Canada over Eng­lish cre­den­tials

[From at least 1965, the Laurentian elite’s game plan is to replace Canada’s European founding/settler people with a Third World majority. Back in Pierre Trudeau’s time, immigration offices in the British Isles and Europe were closed — don’t want too many of THOSE sorts of people. Offices were opened in India and elsewhere. Recently, the Auditor-General reported as many as 150,000 fraudulent student visa applications in the invasion facilitated by son Justin Trudeau. The Immigration department was swamped, overwhelmed but, instead of shutting the doors, they simply threw up their hands. Not so with Scottish midwife Heather Gilchrist, a hardworking expert gainfully employed in Victoria. She is about to be deported because of a mix-up over her English language qualifications. You read that right: her English language qualifications. A hardworking, competent White Scot is not the sort of person our elite wants in Canada and, so, they are turfing her out.]

Tri­stin Hop­per

25 Mar 2026

Just as Canada’s immig­ra­tion sys­tem is wracked by rev­el­a­tions of unchecked fraud, it seems to have found time to threaten a Scot­tish mid­wife with deport­a­tion on the grounds she didn’t suf­fi­ciently prove she can speak Eng­lish.

Heather Gil­christ, 58, speaks Eng­lish as her mother tongue, and even com­pleted the man­dat­ory $330 cer­ti­fic­a­tion course to prove as much.

But she told National Post a tech­nical glitch pre­ven­ted the cer­ti­fic­a­tion from reach­ing immig­ra­tion author­it­ies, res­ult­ing in the sur­prise with­drawal of her work per­mit earlier this month.

A March 14 let­ter from an IRCC case officer told her they weren’t sat­is­fied she could speak Eng­lish, that her legal status had been with­drawn, and that she had 90 days to leave the coun­try.

“If you do not leave Canada vol­un­tar­ily, enforce­ment action may be taken against you,” it reads.

“I had just lit­er­ally come off an on-call shift,” said Gil­christ, who has been work­ing as a registered mid­wife in Vic­toria, B.C., since Septem­ber.

A 10-year vet­eran of mid­wifery in the U.K., Gil­christ first came to Canada in Octo­ber 2024, and obtained cer­ti­fic­a­tion as a B.C. mid­wife after com­plet­ing a bridging pro­gram at the Uni­versity of Brit­ish Columbia.

“I have hun­dreds of babies behind me, and I’m good at what I do,” said Gil­christ, who estim­ated that she’s spent $60,000 on the costs of mov­ing to Canada and obtain­ing Cana­dian cer­ti­fic­a­tion.

What’s sud­denly put all of it in jeop­ardy is one of the most infam­ous com­pon­ents of the Cana­dian immig­ra­tion pro­cess, at least for immig­rants from Anglo­phone coun­tries.

Most Cana­dian immig­ra­tion streams require proof of a com­pleted CELPIP (Cana­dian Eng­lish Lan­guage

Pro­fi­ciency Index Pro­gram). It’s a roughly three-hour test requir­ing the applic­ant to prove that they can read and under­stand Eng­lish, and there is no exemp­tion for the thou­sands of Cana­dian immig­rants each year who speak it as a nat­ive tongue.

“It’s three-and-a-half hours of your life you’re never get­ting back,” said Gil­christ.

Gil­christ did indeed pass her CELPIP with fly­ing col­ours. But in the online applic­a­tion for a post-gradu­ate work per­mit, she says there was no prompt to sub­mit it. As such, she assumed it was unne­ces­sary, or that the test centre who admin­istered her CELPIP had already for­war­ded the res­ults to IRCC.

And Gil­christ wouldn’t be the first to say as much. Online immig­ra­tion for­ums are filled with com­plaints from fel­low post-gradu­ate applic­ants say­ing that their per­mits were rejec­ted due to tech­nical dif­fi­culties in sub­mit­ting a com­pleted CELPIP.

“My PGWP was refused on March 10 due to miss­ing lan­guage pro­fi­ciency test res­ult. I did attach the doc­u­ment but appar­ently it wasn’t shown in my applic­a­tion,” reads an anonym­ous March 18 post on a pub­lic Face­book group for post-gradu­ate applic­ants.

A recent post on the web­site Justlaw details the exper­i­ence of an immig­rant in exactly Gil­christ’s situ­ation: The sud­den loss of work and res­id­ency status because of miss­ing CELPIP res­ults. “I did not see a clear option to upload lan­guage test doc­u­ment­a­tion, so I was unaware that the score report had not been included in my applic­a­tion,” it reads.

The Ontario-based immig­ra­tion con­sultancy Eff­iz­ient Immig­ra­tion encountered the prob­lem so often that they pro­filed it in a Feb. 28 You­tube video. “Even though many applic­ants had com­pleted the test before apply­ing, the doc­u­ment was not uploaded cor­rectly due to unclear instruc­tions,” reads a descrip­tion.

A Change.org peti­tion call­ing out the CELPIP glitch has 1,600 sig­na­tures. It includes images of online IRCC applic­a­tion forms, show­ing that lan­guage res­ults were not included in a check­list of required doc­u­ment­a­tion.

“Many affected stu­dents had no way to attach the doc­u­ment in their applic­a­tion, nor were they given a second chance to sub­mit it — even though the lan­guage test res­ults pred­ated the applic­a­tion date and were avail­able if reques­ted,” reads the peti­tion.

As of press time, the prob­lem doesn’t appear to have been fixed. The online form for a post-gradu­ate work per­mit now fea­tures the warn­ing “due to sys­tem lim­it­a­tions, the doc­u­ment check­list won’t ask you to provide lan­guage test res­ults or proof that you gradu­ated from an eli­gible field of study.”

Applic­ants are instead told to upload these doc­u­ments as part of a “cli­ent inform­a­tion” portal that is sep­ar­ate from their applic­a­tion.

And due to tech­nical dif­fi­culties, the doc­u­ments can only be uploaded in the form of a single PDF. Upload­ing more than one will auto­mat­ic­ally delete the first.

For Gil­christ, she says the whole mis­un­der­stand­ing could have been patched up with a simple email from the IRCC; a notice of miss­ing doc­u­ment­a­tion, which she could have imme­di­ately for­war­ded in an email.

Instead, after 250 days of silence from the IRCC, the next she heard was that her applic­a­tion had been rejec­ted and her res­id­ency status had been pulled effect­ive imme­di­ately.

“Since you have not provided any doc­u­ment­a­tion to demon­strate the min­imum lan­guage pro­fi­ciency, your applic­a­tion is refused,” reads the let­ter, signed by “Officer SV.”

The let­ter came far too late, said Gil­christ, to apply for a work per­mit via a dif­fer­ent avenue. As such, she’s had to hand off her vari­ous mid­wife cases to co-work­ers and enter into a mad scramble to appeal the decision before she faces pos­sible deport­a­tion in June.

“There’s something majorly wrong here. One hand does not know what the other hand is doing,” said Gil­christ. “I’m not ask­ing for favours, I just want it to be fair.”

Gil­christ’s case has garnered head­lines in both B.C. and Scot­tish media, but she says that so far, the only response she’s been able to obtain from the IRCC is a form let­ter inform­ing her that she failed to prove her Eng­lish pro­fi­ciency.

“IRCC under­stands the dis­ap­point­ment that comes with a refused applic­a­tion. However, this office can­not provide any inform­a­tion or details regard­ing the reas­ons for a refusal other than the inform­a­tion provided in the refusal let­ter,” it reads.

Gil­christ’s sud­den ejec­tion from B.C. mid­wif­ing is awk­wardly occur­ring amid a pub­lic push by the B.C. gov­ern­ment to attract for­eign tal­ent into its health sec­tor. In June, B.C. Health Min­is­ter Josie Osborne trum­peted a new pro­gram to fast-track the recruit­ment of “inter­na­tional” health pro­fes­sions, includ­ing doc­tors from the U.S.

“Since the cam­paign began, more than 2,250 doc­tors, nurse prac­ti­tion­ers, nurses and allied health pro­fes­sion­als have signed up for webinars and expressed interest in work­ing in B.C.,” read a state­ment at the time.

It’s also iron­ic­ally occur­ring amid a series of pub­lic scan­dals reveal­ing the lax­ity of IRCC screen­ing and pro­cessing. Just on Monday, an Aud­itor Gen­eral’s report found that although more than 150,000 for­eign nation­als may have entered the coun­try under fraud­u­lent stu­dent visas in recent years, only 4,000 of those were ever invest­ig­ated.

Gil­christ said she’s also reached out to Osborne, and to the office of Vic­toria Lib­eral MP Will Greaves, but to no avail. In the lat­ter case, Greaves’ office told her “we do not have the author­ity to over­turn or appeal decisions made by IRCC.”

Said Gil­christ, “it just takes one per­son to say this is out­rageous, and fix it.” (National Post, March 25, 2026)