In an attempt to meet the demands of French teachers in British Columbia, Canada, the recruiters of the province is eyeing at European skills. The recruiters are hoping to address the shortage of French teachers by traveling to job fairs in Europe.

British Columbia is in need of French teachers who could teach French in both English and French school systems. Recruiters like Janet Stewart traveled Paris and Brussels in Europe and attended job fairs at the end of 2009 in a hope to draw teachers to British Columbia who could deliver core French and French-immersion programs in English, as well as French schools.

Earlier, Quebec had been the reliable source of French-speaking teachers, but of late, the province is not producing sufficient number of teachers who could teach French. Thus, slowly the education sector, like many other industries are relying on foreign skills to address the labor shortage.

British Columbia is running short of speech-language pathologists; French-immersion teachers; education specialists; and teachers for areas like music, physics and special education. However, it is seen that teachers from foreign countries are not flocking as much as other skills immigrate do in various other sectors. This is because the province has not yet worked on some of its bureaucratic complications when it comes to gaining British Columbia certificate.

The executive director for British Columbia Chapter of Canadian Parents for French, Robert Rothon asserts the need of French teachers and said that the shortage of the teachers in the province has diminish the growth of French-immersion programs!