Citizenship and Immigration committee  Definitely, we are on the front lines. We see the issues. Many of the problems related to employment and professional certification have to do with communications. How do you communicate properly? It's not just written English or spoken English. It's how you present yourself, how

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would say it would be mentoring support. You can leverage a lot of experience, a lot of knowledge from among the community. So the government only needs to propagate the method, propagate the model down to the community and let the community work with these people. By leveragin

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I wouldn't say it's a good move or a bad move. I would say it's a positive move. This is something that we do to make sure that we are equally fair to everyone, but we still have a lot to logistically put in place. All the regulated bodies have to come up with a plan on how they

Citizenship and Immigration committee  This is what we think is the right solution. Number one, you put the terminology and the language together with a group of people, and also you're putting the group of people together to network with each other. So that's a good move, definitely.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I definitely think so. Having the information before they land reduces the shock and gets them well prepared. I think it's a very good idea. I also like the idea of giving them language vouchers. In our agency we don't provide basic language training. We don't have LINC, and we

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I may answer about language issues, language is one thing and languages involve a lot of other aspects. The cultural background is also a very important issue that is related to language. For example, a doctor's language skills are quite high. But if you are talking about a do

Citizenship and Immigration committee  From a technical point of view, that would definitely help, so they know what is needed to be done before they come here. But from the cultural integration perspective, I think it takes a little while before the person can integrate totally. This is why I have tried to make som

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can only speak from the employment side. We notice when a lot of other countries talk about certification, their standards are not much different from Canada's. For example, the accountants in Ontario--CGAs--now recognize accountants from England. They can probably now look int

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's probably not quite the practical way, for the individuals who come, to learn the law, because as Mr. Shan was saying, you only come to find out when you do something wrong or when you're in trouble. I think community agencies can do a good job in bridging the gap. Normally t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Our perspective regarding mentoring support is to share the mentoring resources that we have built in our own organization. We're sharing with other agencies. Because of the network we have and the connections we have with them, we know they have a need, and we have some capacity

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That definitely is a very interesting initiative. But having an interview is just one aspect of it . When you get the person into the room and talk with him, there are so many things you need to find out. You can describe a person, with no name and gender and so on. There is stil

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good morning, Mr. Chairman, and good morning to everyone. Thank you for your invitation to the Chinese Professionals Association of Canada to prepare for important discussions like this one. Over the past 17 years we have been known as CPAC, an organization that represents over