Fair Access to Regulated Professions Act, 2006

• require 34 regulated professions in Ontario to have a licensing process that has fair, open and timely assessment of credentials of foreign trained professionals  
• establish the Office of the Fairness Commissioner who would be responsible for assessing registration and licensing practices, and ensure compliance  
• create an "Access Centre" for Internationally Trained Individuals, a new one-stop resource centre that would help people navigate through the complex systems when seeking to enter regulated professions, and promote internships and mentoring programs  

The purpose of Act is to help ensure that regulated professions are governed by registration practices that are transparent, objective, impartial and fair. This means that it would apply to organizations like the College that register practitioners for practice in a regulated profession.

The College supports the Act in principle as it believes that the requirements proposed in the Bill are already fully supported by the College and the profession. However, the College does believe that clarification is required in areas such as the interpretation of “fair registration practices” by the Fairness Commission and these requirements of registration practice compliance audits.