Canada with Open Eyes: Starting Over, Rebuilding a Career, and Becoming Canadian

An immigrant does not arrive empty. He arrives with a past that a new country may not yet know how to read. When Mohamed MEHENOUN moved from Algeria to Quebec, he already had an engineering career, years in telecommunications, and a parallel life in translation. In Canada, he found himself working nights in a network operations centre, retaking certifications, studying translation at a distance, and rebuilding professional recognition one institution at a time. Canada with Open Eyes is a memoir about starting over without erasing what came before. It moves from work and professional recognition to citizenship, language, multiculturalism, public trust, immigration capacity, and reconciliation. At its centre is a question familiar to many newcomers: what happens when the experience you bring is real, but the new system does not yet know how to read it? Neither a love letter nor a grievance, this is a clear-eyed account of choosing a country-and accepting responsibility for what it might become. Publishing rights: I own the copyright and hold the necessary publishing rights.