Human Resources committee  The best model I can give you is the situation that happened in Alberta. The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology received pilot funding about five years ago. The costs it estimated to sustain the program would have been $82,000 per student. So NAIT didn't pick it up, the min

Human Resources committee  Sure. At this time my office has approximately three and a half full-time staff assessing only 200 files a year. To compare the cost of a full-time job versus the cost of what we charge an immigrant, we charge a client right now $800 for a process that costs our society $1,650. T

Human Resources committee  No.

Human Resources committee  From our perspective, the Canadian practice is so different from others globally. There's a good match with three of the disciplines, but not with the full complement in Canada, and we don't have a subject exam. It may be feasible with one jurisdiction, and that would be the Phil

Human Resources committee  Thank you for the question. That is the model we have at the Canadian Society. All of the provinces and territories have agreed to the standard, which is why it's easy for us to administer because the CSMLS doesn't set the standard; the regulators and associations have collabora

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  Sure. We at the CSMLS are very fortunate to be a mid-sized organization. Fourteen thousand members sounds like a lot, but there are only 400 practitioners on Prince Edward Island. In Newfoundland there are only 800, and some don't even have a regulatory body, or they're what I wo

Human Resources committee  No, it's open. It's our commitment to the profession that we will maintain and sustain the program of foreign qualification recognition and entrance to the national exam.

Human Resources committee  Do you mean skills for foreign trained or for domestic?

Human Resources committee  Domestic. That's on a province-by-province basis, and they all agree to the national competency profile. So there are 27 programs in Canada, and I think about seven or eight in Quebec. They all conform to the same standards. So that's just the process we've done since 1937, and w

Human Resources committee  For the Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science, it's definitely to fill a void. The void is not quite as alarming as we had expected, but the domestic students enrolled in programs are not enough to equal retirements. There's definitely a net labour market loss with reti

Human Resources committee  Quebec sits at the table setting the standards for both certification and for prior learning assessment, but it looks after its own immigration, and it doesn't require the certification exam as entry to practice. But Quebec is absolutely at the table as a partner in all discussio

Human Resources committee  That's a great question. It's something my association is grappling with right now. With the economic downturn in 2008, our members are not leaving the field as quickly as expected. We had speculated that 52% would be eligible to retire in 2015. That number is closer to 27%, bu

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's a great question. There are very few professions that asses on a national level. That's where we run into some challenges, especially related to the agreement on internal trade. And we run into licensing barriers. In the past, one has been licensed i

Human Resources committee  Sure. Thank you. One of our recent projects is assessing the integration of two to seven years post-licensure for five professions. This includes Chuck's profession, medical radiation technologist, and medical laboratory technologist, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, and pha