215pp ISBN: 9780987895417 (pdf on demand)
Frontier Centre for Public Policy July 2012
Specifically, they often find that Canadian occupational licensing bodies do not recognize the professional credentials they obtained in their home countries. Many of these hurdles come at a significant cost to Canada’s economic productivity and capacity to generate tax revenue. These barriers can have a disastrous impact on the economic prospects of thousands of new Canadians and their families. This book explores a number of approaches to policy reform that hold the potential to address barriers to entry for foreign-trained professionals.