Citizenship and Immigration committee  —if they actually need a licence. As I mentioned in my testimony, you can practise engineering, be part of the engineering team, without a licence. We need people to understand where they fit in. It's only when you need to be publicly accountable for that work that you actually n

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I mentioned our engineering road map for coming into Canada, so it's certainly vastly improved from the days when you may have gone through that process. You can go there and click on the online educational assessment tool, and if you have a certain type of degree, it will give y

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The short answer is yes, it does apply to the engineering profession. On the percentage, again, we don't know, because we don't see all of those who claim to have engineering credentials. Of the 20% who actually apply for a licence, over 80% of them actually meet the requirements

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely. Just as it is for lawyers and doctors, it's regulated provincially. It's province by province. We're the national body that works with the provinces. We work with the associations to have common standards across the board.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely, I think there's a lot more to do, and I think we need to do it working together with those ones. One of the initiatives we're looking at is becoming designated under the express entry program as an educational credential assessment provider. With that designation, an

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to appear. As mentioned, I am here in the capacity of chief executive officer of Engineers Canada. We're the national body of the provincial and territorial regulators of the engineering profession. I'm also here as a member of the panel o

Human Resources committee  If you look at your experience with the rental markets, why did those work? It's because people wanted the information. It was timely, accurate, and useful. Our current labour market doesn't get many of those ticks as you go along with it. Employers would be willing to participat

Human Resources committee  There are a number of programs that I think are often wider spread than those. The University of Manitoba and Ryerson and the University of Toronto now have programs where they work very closely with the regulator and assess the immigrant engineer's skills, and if there are some

Human Resources committee  I'd offer the comment that I think we need to deal with the micro and the macro. The job posting that's in there deals with today and the immediate, which I think is helpful. For the whole long-term training strategy, you need to be thinking about what those things are five to te

Human Resources committee  Our career-focused tool is one of the things we're trying to do. It's an online type of tool that helps people look at the 85-odd behavioural traits of where their best match is and where their best skills are. My belief is that if you can get people who are very passionate about

Human Resources committee  I think there's a sense of it being on the one hand and then on the other. It's about how they actually get and win the job and be competitive and carry out the business, and yet they also feel that responsibility of bringing along the young people and putting it in there. Employ

Human Resources committee  Yes. I think they're very similar types of programs that are needed. I think they're probably somewhat different, but I think those types of approaches have worked well with trades in getting people in and getting them the requisite experience so they can move on and practise in

Human Resources committee  Sure. Why we ended up developing the labour market system was due likely to the same issues that a number of your witnesses have talked about. It's just a huge, huge gap. To try to plan so people can end up with very successful careers, we're looking at how to actually sustain a

Human Resources committee  Sure. Now is the time for—