Agreement Reached On Inter Provincial Movement

Friday, December 05, 2008 06:12 PM

VICTORIA - Full labour mobility between provinces was confirmed today by agreement among Canada's labour and trade ministers, breaking down economic barriers and allowing Canadians and their families to move freely throughout the country, Premier Gordon Campbell said today.

"Freeing up the enormous talent and enterprise of British Columbians and all Canadians by maximizing labour mobility is critical to building our economic strength, particularly during challenging economic times,"Premier Campbell said. "Full labour mobility will allow Canadians to move freely, taking advantage of job opportunities, and helps address long-term skilled worker shortages, such as we will face in B.C. This is an important step forward, and we need to continue to work on removing similar barriers to trade and investment, so we have full trade and labour mobility across the country."

Negotiated as part of Canada's Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT), the new labour mobility provisions require that, effective April 1, 2009, people with a specific professional or occupational certification in one province or territory will be recognized as qualified to practise their profession in all provinces and territories where their profession or occupation is regulated.

The agreement was approved today by the Committee on Internal Trade (CIT), which is made up of federal, provincial and territorial internal trade ministers. It honours a commitment made by Canada's premiers last July to achieve full labour mobility for Canadians.

"This agreement will give Canadians the freedom to put their education and skills to work wherever they choose and wherever those opportunities exist," said Minister of Technology, Trade and Economic Development Ida Chong. "That's why we signed the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA) with Alberta, which continues to serve as an
inspiration for full labour mobility and freer trade on the national level

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Comments

Posted by: dow7500 on December 5 2008 7:28 PM

Great news, but does this incude Quebec? I can't see Quebec signing this with out a labour war. They are all pissy about one securities regulater as well.

Posted by: downnotout on December 5 2008 9:37 PM

I know that with an interprovincial welding ticket a welder can challenge a provinces pressure tickets any where in Canada except in Quebec. Check out the tar sands. You will find workers from across Canada there. So the above article is a lot of smoke and mirrors. Look I am doing something. Political bullshit. As far as I know all the trades have interprovincial status.

Posted by: Hindsight on December 5 2008 10:51 PM

The electrical Interprovincial ticket is also recognized in all provinces except quebec.

Posted by: The_grandinquisitor on December 6 2008 1:14 AM

Who wants to work in Quebec anyways? Higher taxes there than anywhere else in Canada I believe.

Posted by: Denaljo on December 6 2008 8:09 AM

Smoke & mirrors is right. My trades ticket is interprovincial. I wonder how much this so called deal cost the taxpayers?

Posted by: northman on December 6 2008 8:43 AM

Im 50 50 on this one. It would be good for some people like forest professionals for example who are binded by province. (please correct me if im wrong on that one). On the other hand Denaljo brings up a good point as well.

Posted by: diplomat on December 6 2008 11:25 AM

Some people manage to find a fly in every ointment. Yikes!

Posted by: gamblor on December 6 2008 11:40 AM

Quebecors put the flies there.

Posted by: downnotout on December 6 2008 12:19 PM

soon you will need a degree to catch flies Hope it will be good through out all provinces

Posted by: downnotout on December 6 2008 12:23 PM

what needs to be done is that all education should be standardized in schools, colleges, universitys, all the learning centers.

Posted by: NMG on December 6 2008 12:59 PM

"Smoke & mirrors is right. My trades ticket is interprovincial. I wonder how much this so called deal cost the taxpayers"

Based on what was written above, this would apply to anyone that requires professional or occupational certification. I read that to mean that it would apply to the trades AND other areas, areas that may not have been covered off before.

Perhaps, for example, this would allow health care workers in other areas of Canada to now work in BC without re-certifying. I'm just guessing here but it certainly sounds "bigger" than something created just to address the trades. I don't see how that is a bad thing. In fact, I think it's quite good to have that flexibility. It allows us to compete more effectively and it makes opportunities that much easier for people to take advantage of.