Thank you for coming in.
I must admit, with all the acronyms being thrown around, I'm a bit befuddled by the alphabet soup we've been subjected to. I would appreciate seeing Health Canada's notes. I think they would help.
I have all kinds of questions, but I'm going to start with one for HRSDC.
On page 4 of your brief, you indicated that “the Agreement on Internal Trade states that workers certified for a regulated occupation in one province or territory can...be certified...”.
I understand that the AIT has to do with labour mobility. There are many occupations that have different regulations in different provinces. I'm not going to name them all, but certainly teachers and social workers come to mind. I believe teachers were mentioned somewhere in one of these documents.
How does that work for foreign credentials? Say somebody was a teacher and had credentials in one province but there were different rules in other provinces. In fact, Canadian-trained teachers run into that all the time. I was just speaking to somebody yesterday who was trained in B.C. and is trying to find work in Ontario, and this person has to go through this credential process. How does that apply to foreign workers?