Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Young. I'll begin. The Foreign Credential Referral Office, as well as the pilot project funded by HRCC that the FCRO will begin funding later next year, allows, in three countries currently--China, India, and the Philippines--for individuals who have been given a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Very quickly, Mr. Chair, I will address the first question, and then pass the rest to my colleagues. On the employer issue, Madam Chow, you've raised an issue that is broader than foreign credential recognition. We're getting into the additional supports that are absolutely need

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would like to further comment on that issue, Mr. St-Cyr. As I said, in learning what the Royal Bank of Canada has done, I think this is an opportunity for all employers across Canada to consider this kind of an approach to ensure that they truly do have an open-door policy and

Citizenship and Immigration committee  --and the alliance have developed. In those sessions with employers--you have a copy of the employer road map in front of you--we certainly could signal this as a possibility and see if there's interest from the employer community.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Karygiannis, on the issue of advertising, I can tell you that the foreign credentials recognition referral office in 2008 undertook a $1 million advertising campaign that was primarily focused on the ethnic media but was also carried in national dailies, print only. I can als

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It will be $600,000. That will run from November through to the end of March. In order to capitalize on the Olympics, we will add an additional $300,000 in the January to March period to add advertising in transit as well as at airports.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. St-Cyr, for the question. I think you've heard in our statements this morning that we all recognize that even with all the assistance that our provincial and territorial colleagues, as well as the federal government, are putting into this issue, there still remain

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, there is.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Karygiannis, the federal role is to fund organizations, including national associations of regulatory bodies, to build assessment tools to ensure that their processes for obtaining licensure are as fair and transparent as possible for foreign-trained, as well as for Canadian-

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am Executive Director of the Foreign Credentials Referral Office at Citizenship and Immigration Canada. I want to thank the committee for this opportunity to provide an update on CIC's role in foreign credential recognition. I think we can all recogni

Health committee  I'll try my best, and I would like to actually split my answer with my colleague from HRSDC, because I think the statistic that you referenced was a project that has been funded from HRSDC's foreign credential recognition program, funding to the Medical Council of Canada. You me

Health committee  Just to build on what Carol said about the first ministers' commitment, to respond to Monsieur Malo as well as to respond in part to Dr. Bennett's question earlier, first ministers, as Carol has said, have asked for the framework by September of this year. In leading up to the

Health committee  Thank you very much for the question. I mentioned that there are many players involved in the assessment and recognition of credentials in this country. We have to think about it in terms of the regulated occupations as well as the non-regulated occupations. In terms of regula

Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. My name is Corinne Prince St-Amand and I am Executive Director of the Foreign Credentials Referral Office at Citizenship and Immigration Canada. I want to thank the Committee for this opportunity to provide an overview of CIC's role in health human resou