I agree with the regulated professions that it’s actually going to expedite things and make things easier, but I’m still not convinced that for unregulated professionals it is going to make that easier. For instance, if you have a chiropractor in the South who wants to come and practice in the Northwest Territories and he’s licensed through a southern institution or southern licensing body to come here where there is no licensing, it’s going to be less appealing because his criteria or his qualifications and licence won’t necessarily be recognized.
I’m curious, for instance, just as another example, in the Northwest Territories we have midwives. I mean, nurse practitioners. To be a nurse practitioner in the Northwest Territories you can go through an Aurora College program which you can get into with a diploma. In the South you pretty much have to have a master’s degree to get an NP designation. How is something like that going to work on the way out? For nurse practitioners who want to look south for employment and nurse practitioners who want to look north for
employment, how does the lack of consistency between the mobility agreement affect our nurse practitioners?