Human Resources committee  Thank you. I'd like to follow up on that because that applies directly to one of the recommendations we made. That is to provide some sort of scholarship assistance to the internationally educated health professionals themselves to enable them to apply that to whatever bridging

Human Resources committee  Mr. McColeman, I got the sense you were wondering whether there has been a backlash from within the profession to protect jobs. No, we're fortunate. We haven't found that to be the case. On your second point about the associations working together provincially and nationally to h

Human Resources committee  I would say that CAMRT did have reciprocity with several countries at one point, but then as education requirements for entry to practice began to diverge, we had to drop those. We're getting close to some reciprocity discussions that aren't full reciprocity, which we might be ab

Human Resources committee  I'd be happy to start responding, Mr. Shory. Yes, in fact, the current project that we have with HRSDC has been to establish a national standard. We look after I think seven provinces, but Quebec, Ontario, and Alberta have regulatory bodies and they do their own assessment. But

Human Resources committee  Allow me to answer Mr. Patry's question. Yes, our programs are also available in French, and we have noted that a number of our members and other technologists in Canada participate in the same programs. The self-assessment tool is very beneficial for them, and we think that the

Human Resources committee  Thank you. It's both. When the program started there was a shortage of medical radiation technologists, for the same reason Christine Nielsen mentioned. With the economic downturn a couple of years ago, retirements have been put off, so we have been finding that there's not the

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Dr. Leitch, your question sounded as if it also asked for advice we might have regarding federal-provincial governments working together towards objectives.

Human Resources committee  There are mechanisms, of course, that exist between the federal and provincial governments. Now, in the Department of Health, those can work. One of the things I have found in my years of working with several associations is that oftentimes the national associations working with

Human Resources committee  I just have a few recommendations to get to.

Human Resources committee  Based on the experience we have, there are three things I'd like to suggest. First is to increase attention on the language capacity. We would suggest this might be done at the screening of possible immigrants, providing access to language training once in Canada. Second is to d

Human Resources committee  We do not receive any feedback, either from the employers or the technologists themselves. It appears that they are able to find jobs. However, given the work she does, Christine has more research-based information about that.

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Komarnicki. I am Chuck Shields. I am the CEO of the Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists. With me is Giulia Nastase, the special projects manager in our office, who is looking after our work in the area related to internationally educ