Recruiting foreign-trained professionals

The editorial by Amir Attaran and Roderick Walker about Shoppers Drug Mart's practice of recruiting pharmacists from South Africa1 raises an important moral point, but in my view the authors' argument is seriously flawed. As a family physician trained in South Africa, I can assure readers that the recruitment of South African physicians to Canada is often far more active than the "passive enticement of job advertisements" mentioned by Attaran and Walker.