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Pan - Canadian Framework offers hope for Skilled Worker Credentials Assessment and Recognition.
Posted on Dec 15, 2009
For years ‘newcomers to Canada have not been able to use their skills and work to their full potential upon arriving in Canada because the process for newcomers to have their education, skills and experience recognized in Canada was too difficult.’ Imran Qayyum, Chair of CMI.
The story of the foreign trained doctor driving a taxi cab when Canada faces an acute shortage of physicians is an all to common reality. Because of this Canada has lost countless well qualified trained Skilled Foreign Workers to other countries who have more aggressive policies in place to attract and accredit foreign qualified doctors.
Fortunately things are changing. The Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development and the Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, and their Provincial and Territorial counterparts recently launched the new Pan-Canadian Framework for the Assessment and Recognition of Foreign Qualifications, foreign-trained workers who submit an application to be licensed or registered to work in certain fields will be advised within one year whether their qualifications will be recognized
The objective of the Pan-Canadian Framework for the Assessment and Recognition of Foreign Qualifications is to articulate a new joint national vision, guiding principles and desired outcomes for improving the assessment and recognition of newcomers' qualifications.The framework will initially be implemented in the following eight occupations by December 31, 2010:
• Architects
• Engineers
• Financial Auditors and Accountants
• Medical Laboratory Technologists
• Occupational Therapists
• Pharmacists
• Physiotherapists
• Registered Nurses.
During the next phase of implementation ending December 2012, the framework will be implemented in the following six occupations:
• Dentists
• Engineering Technicians
• Licensed Practical Nurses
• Medical Radiation Technologists
• Physicians
• Teachers (K-12)
Posted on Dec 15, 2009
For years ‘newcomers to Canada have not been able to use their skills and work to their full potential upon arriving in Canada because the process for newcomers to have their education, skills and experience recognized in Canada was too difficult.’ Imran Qayyum, Chair of CMI.
The story of the foreign trained doctor driving a taxi cab when Canada faces an acute shortage of physicians is an all to common reality. Because of this Canada has lost countless well qualified trained Skilled Foreign Workers to other countries who have more aggressive policies in place to attract and accredit foreign qualified doctors.
Fortunately things are changing. The Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development and the Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, and their Provincial and Territorial counterparts recently launched the new Pan-Canadian Framework for the Assessment and Recognition of Foreign Qualifications, foreign-trained workers who submit an application to be licensed or registered to work in certain fields will be advised within one year whether their qualifications will be recognized
The objective of the Pan-Canadian Framework for the Assessment and Recognition of Foreign Qualifications is to articulate a new joint national vision, guiding principles and desired outcomes for improving the assessment and recognition of newcomers' qualifications.The framework will initially be implemented in the following eight occupations by December 31, 2010:
• Architects
• Engineers
• Financial Auditors and Accountants
• Medical Laboratory Technologists
• Occupational Therapists
• Pharmacists
• Physiotherapists
• Registered Nurses.
During the next phase of implementation ending December 2012, the framework will be implemented in the following six occupations:
• Dentists
• Engineering Technicians
• Licensed Practical Nurses
• Medical Radiation Technologists
• Physicians
• Teachers (K-12)
