Human Resources committee  Sure. I can talk about a very fresh example from our consultations with the representatives from the engineering technicians and technologists. Over a three-year period roughly 14,000 newcomers arrive in the country who self-indicate that they are engineers. There's perhaps not a

Human Resources committee  Certainly the AFMC database project you're referring to is the longest-standing project of the FCRP. It's quite interesting, because where we can uncover that data, we seek to find it. In part, one of the challenges is that there's not a hidden stash of this information we can si

Human Resources committee  I would certainly be happy to speak to those. One of the items that's come up repeatedly in the national consultations is the utility of having a mutual recognition agreement between countries with respect to a single profession. I have heard this comment from a number of profe

Human Resources committee  It's not necessarily that we're targeting countries writ large. I think the idea is that certain professions will target countries, and I give the example of certified general accountants. Our project with the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada is investigating t

Human Resources committee  We've also recently announced a conference that will pull together all of the professions from the framework. It will look at the issue of mutual recognition agreements and reciprocity; under what circumstances they work; which countries should be targeted; what are the costs rel

Human Resources committee  If you mean, by challenge exam, a national entry-to-practice licensing exam, you'd be looking at in the neighbourhood of 13 out of 14. What we're trying to do in many cases, to use your example of dentists, is to bypass an exam. Dentists in the United States, for example, have

Human Resources committee  They would be the Canadian Dental Regulatory Authorities Federation and their American counterpart. That's a profession-to-profession mutual recognition or reciprocity agreement. There's a variety of those in the professions, providing one vehicle by which people can gain access.