Be very, very careful. Your Canadian qualification may not be recognized in Poland or you may need to complete an extra course. Polish bureaucratic extremes are commonplace.
Give you an example: my wife has a full-blown teaching qualification from Warsaw University. It says so in her student documentation. An idiot of a bureaucrat in the local administration said he didn't know whether that qualified her to teach, so he demanded that she go and get a letter from university saying that the document is what it says it is. To cut a very long story short, she eventually met up with a bureaucrat at Warsaw University (who works one hour a week) who said she couldn't simply write a letter saying that the document from Warsaw University, which says it is a teaching qualification, is actually a teaching qualification.
So, not only is a teaching qualification from a leading Polish university not recognized immediately in local administration, it is not even recognized immediately at the institute that issued it! The situation will eventually be resolved this week - but it should never have arisen in the first place. Moreover, her years of teaching in UK state schools (and UK teaching qualified teacher status) count for nothing in terms of seniority in Poland.
Still, you shouldn't be too surprised - teaching is a closed profession across the whole of the European Union, despite EU rules. I think only the UK and Ireland actually fully accept foreign-qualified teachers on the same conditions as domestically-qualified ones.
Thank you for the answerers, very helpful.
As for my plans I intend on being a pharmacist which requires an undergraduate degree.. I don't want to own nor operate a pharmacy. I know they don't pay as much in poland as in canada but I'm not concerned.
