I would say it affects us. When I was in Cameroon, I spoke French. My parents worked, my father was a teacher, a teacher at a lycée—the equivalent of high school in the French school system. My mother was a primary school teacher.
When we arrived in Canada, my father was asked for his marks from “terminale”—that's the last year of high school in Cameroon. He's been a teacher for 25 years. He wonders how he's going to be able to prove it, so he can enter a program to become a teacher again here. So he'll be going to Cameroon soon, and he wonders whether he'll be coming back here because it's difficult.
We arrived a year ago, and he hasn't worked the entire year. We've lived off resources from Cameroon. We had a better life there than here. He really wonders whether he will come back here because it's not really worth it to come back here and to do nothing, or to wind up with a job that doesn't correspond to his skills. He prefers to go back and live and work there in order to support us from there.
Something should be done about recognizing our parents' credentials and work experience.