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View Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral Profile
BQ (QC)
Welcome everyone.
Dr. Fry and Andrew, thank you for being here.
We will now hear from our witnesses. I'm delighted to see that we're only running 10 minutes' late. Our first witnesses are Mr. Touchette and Mr. Facette from the Canadian Council of Technicians and Technologists. Go ahead, gentlemen.
View Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral Profile
BQ (QC)
Thank you very much, gentlemen.
I now call upon Mr. Ramlall to make his presentation. After that, we will go to the round of questions.
View Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral Profile
BQ (QC)
Thank you, sir, for your presentation. It wasn't easy to follow your chart, but it was helpful nonetheless.
Go ahead, Mr. Telegdi.
View Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral Profile
BQ (QC)
I'd like to ask a question, if I may.
After listening to both of your presentations, I sense that you have managed to smooth out some problems through reciprocity agreements such as the Dublin Accord. Canada needs immigrants because of the shortage of skilled labour and the problem will only escalate in several years' time. Are you able at this time to adequately meet the needs expressed by businesses and groups that use your services?
View Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral Profile
BQ (QC)
In your opinion, how can this problem be resolved? Is your organization doing any lobbying in developed countries that might be able to supply some skilled workers?
View Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral Profile
BQ (QC)
You say you need money! I don't understand that.
View Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral Profile
BQ (QC)
We're not asking you for money, we're merely saying that travel abroad is costly. Despite that fact, we do maintain contacts with other countries. As a general rule, we make presentations on the qualifications needed to work as a technician or technologist in Canada. It's not easy for parents and students in Canada, any more so than it is for foreigners. We try to give them some idea of what's required in order to become a technician or technologist. Last year, for example, we launched Technologists' Week, which runs from November 1 to November 7. This event gives our members and our association an opportunity to organize activities in primary and secondary schools and to discuss the type of work that technologists like Mr. Touchette do. If you were to ask someone to describe what a technologist, for example, a CET, does, often you'll not get an answer. People are familiar with the work of a professional engineer, a doctor or other professional, but have no idea of the work done by a C.E.T., a T.Sc.A. or a T.P. These professions are not well known because they are not regulated by governments. That's the problem we face. That's a discussion for another day, but for now, we simply want to get our message out.
View Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral Profile
BQ (QC)
Are there any further questions or comments?
View Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral Profile
BQ (QC)
I would like to thank all three of our witnesses for taking part in this meeting. I'm disappointed by the low turnout, but the quality of the exchanges made up for that fact, so it's all right.
The meeting is adjourned.
View Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral Profile
BQ (QC)
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Good afternoon, everyone. I'm sorry that I was a bit late, but we've caught up. Some people got here after me.
The whole issue of recognizing credentials is not a new problem. The problem existed 40 years ago. I worked for a long time in pediatrics and I remember a resident at Sainte-Justine who turned out not to have a degree in medicine. So the requirements were tightened up, and I find that acceptable.
However, when you tighten up the requirements too much, you wind up in a situation where qualified people loose their qualification because it's too difficult.
This morning, in the car on the way here, I was thinking about you. When you're all alone, you get to thinking. I have a question that I'd like to ask everyone. I imagine that in countries as developed as our own—and there are a lot of them—the training must be more or less equivalent, whether in medicine, dentistry, engineering, architecture or pharmacy. Do you currently have a bias in favour of certain faculties? For example, do you decide that for people who have done their studies in England, Germany or Finland, automatically, that's okay?
If you are already doing that, would it be conceivable to have placements, and not six months, one year or two years after arriving in Canada or Quebec? Basically, what you want to verify is know-how in all professions. That goes for nurses too. It's one thing to have the knowledge, but to ensure quality care, you also have to verify that the person has the know-how. The person has to have the soft skills too, of course, but the know-how as well. In health, that is verified in a clinical setting, and for the other professions, it is done in the field. Is that conceivable?
I was listening to the statistics about the number of doctors coming from abroad that we would need to meet basic needs, to deal with the health situation. It seems to me that it should be possible to do that. I heard you say, for example, that the universities have no more money. That's true. However, I do know that in a lot of hospitals, it's getting very hard for residents to live up to their responsibilities. Surely there must be some way to reconcile the needs of the hospital with those of the doctor on the way to being accreditated and those of the profession.
Ms. Lemay, you weren't talking about health, but you were saying that a few years ago, 23,000 assessments were being done, and that the number is now 1,500. I guess there's a problem. That really surprises me.
I'd like to hear what you have to say about that. My mind was wandering this morning on the drive and I thought that this might be feasible.
View Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral Profile
BQ (QC)
I'm an expert at that, because I always get cut off.
View Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral Profile
BQ (QC)
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View Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral Profile
BQ (QC)
It depends on the practice.
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