Corporate Lawyer Dept: Her first language is English. Yet like all other skilled immigrants applying to settle in Canada, the American corporate lawyer must now take a language test to prove her English is good enough to settle here, according to The Star. I almost fell off the chair. I ve been practising law here for years and I have to prove my proficiency in English and born and raised in New York, Dodi Robbins graduated from Harvard University and has been practising law for 13 years. I was outraged, insulted and floored, said Robbins, who obtained her law degree at Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School in New York. A mother of two, she has been working in Toronto on a work permit for four years as compliance and regulations counsel for an international financial services company. As
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