Awareness of international agreements on best practice should incentivize such practice. Thus, it is essential that key stakeholders in important source and destination countries are aware of the Code. Previous research in Canada and other destination countries, which involved interviews with 189 stakeholders, suggests a general lack of knowledge of any Code, WHO or otherwise, amongst those directly responsible for health worker recruitment, namely local employers and regional health authorities [1, 7, 8]. Indeed, presentations to some of these Canadian stakeholders about the knock-on effects of their efforts to recruit local health care workers in such exporting source countries as the Philippines and India were often met with shocked responses. Justifications for their active recruitment of, for example, nurses in the Philippines and doctors in India, were based on claims of local ‘shortages’, which is more accurately described as maldistribution, in the destination country (Canada), and ‘surpluses’, which more accurately reflects under- and unemployment, in the two source countries. There was little or no awareness that, in many source countries, health worker to population ratios (i.e., physicians, nurses, and midwives) fall below the WHO’s critical threshold guidelines of 2.28 per 1000. Although the four source countries we studied have varying health worker population ratios (none of which currently fall under the critical threshold, although India is very close), they still remain significantly lower than Canada’s ratios, which are well above the guidelines [9].