review-thinking

From 2015 to 2017, there were nearly 50 recommendations that were brought before APEGA's Council for consideration. These have been organized into categories for easier navigation. Select a category below to see each set of recommendations and Council's position on each.

Council, Registrar, and Statutory Entities   Disciplinary Process   Membership Categories   Professional Practice

Examination Candidate

Recommendation

Council endorses the proposed recommendation that the EGP Act and General Regulation be amended to remove the examination candidate category.

Council's Position

Endorsed by Council

Geoscience: Changes to the Definition, Work Products and Exemptions

Recommendation

“practice of geoscience” means:

  • (i) acquiring, investigating, analyzing, processing, interpreting, evaluating, consulting, applying, modelling, assessing, managing, or reporting related to any activity:
    • (A) that relates to the Earth sciences or the environment, and  
    • (B) that is aimed at the understanding of Earth materials, geobodies, natural resources, energy fields, geohazard risks, or processes, and
    • (C) that requires in that acquiring investigating, analyzing, processing, interpreting, evaluating, consulting, applying, managing, or reporting the professional application of the principles of geology, geophysics, physics, chemistry, mathematics, or biology,
    or
  • (ii) teaching geoscience at a university

Council's Position

Endorsed by Council

Recommendation

The Engineers and Geoscience Professions Act be amended to update the description of the types of geoscience documents and work products that need to be authenticated to read:

“…professional documents…”

This change be supplemented by updated practice standards that will provide greater detail and will clarify that geoscience “professional documents” include:

“…maps, geoscientific cross-sections, specifications, reports, or other geoscientific work products in any form or medium, or reproductions of any of them…”

Council's Position

Endorsed by Council

Recommendation

  • remove the exemption relating to prospecting
  • amend the existing exemption related to geoscientific survey and reports to read:
    “a person conducting routine geoscientific surveys or preparing routine geoscience reports where the specifications and standards and any subsequent changes to the field parameters for the survey or report have been prepared or approved by a professional geoscientist or licensee”
  • amend the existing exemption related to data reduction and plotting to include routine data management to read:
    “a person engaged in routine data management, reduction, or plotting of geoscientific data under the supervision and control of a professional geoscientist”

Council's Position

Endorsed by Council

Licensee

Recommendation

Eliminate the (Foreign) Licensee designation.  All qualified individuals to be registered as Professional Engineers or Professional Geoscientists

Council's Position

Endorsed by Council

Council Amendment to the Recommendation: A professional member must be a Canadian citizen or have permanent residence status to run for Council

Members-in-Training

Recommendation

  • M.I.T.s be given the same privileges as professional members regarding APEGA governance matters
  • Allow for the length of time an individual can remain as an M.I.T. to be extended to provide flexibility to other unique circumstances.

Council's Position

Endorsed by Council

Council Amendment to the Recommendation: Place a limit on the number of members-in-Training (M.I.T.s) (to be determined by the Nominating Committee) that could run for Council and a limit on the number of M.I.T. positions on Council

Professional Licensee (P.L.)

Note: Following the spring 2015 consultations, APEGA Council endorsed proposed recommendations to eliminate the existing P.L. designation; create a Limited Licence designation of APEGA membership that would be available only to individuals with engineering or geoscience degrees who do not immediately qualify for P.Eng. or P.Geo. designations but who may otherwise be qualified to practise engineering or geoscience within a limited scope of practice; remove the ability of individuals without engineering or geoscience degrees apply to be eligible to apply for the new limited license; call the new APEGA designation a Professional Limited Licensee (P.L.L.); and grandfather existing P.Ls as P.L.L.s. ASET requested that APEGA revisit this and that APEGA continue to allow highly qualified and experienced technologists to become registered as P.L.L.s and to obtain limited scopes of practice involving complex problem solving using complex methodologies. APEGA Council committed to working towards developing a revised model to accommodate ASET’s request and subsequently endorsed a revised model that would enable Professional Technologists to become licensed as Professional Limited Licensees with APEGA.

Recommendation

  • Eliminate the existing P.L. designation.
  • Create a new Professional Limited License (P.L.L.) designation (Council Amended the Recommendation: to include the word “Professional” in the new designation).
  • Amend the Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act General Regulation as follows:
    • individuals with engineering or geoscience degrees will be eligible to apply directly to APEGA for registration as a Professional Limited Licensee (as previously endorsed by Council)
    • individuals without engineering or geoscience degrees will need to apply to ASET and become registered as a Professional Technologist before being eligible to apply to APEGA for registration as a Professional Limited Licensee
  • Grandfather existing P.L.s as P.L.L.s

Council's Position

Endorsed by Council

Provisional Licensee

Recommendation

The legislation be amended to remove the Provisional Licensee category and all references to Provisional Licensees from the legislation.

Council's Position

Endorsed by Council

Restricted Practitioners

Recommendation

Remove the restricted practitioner category from the legislation.

Council's Position

Endorsed by Council

Student Category

Recommendation

Eliminate the special student member category as a pathway to licensure.

Council's Position

Endorsed by Council – Moved forward to the 2016 AGM

Recommendation

The EGP General Regulation Section 6, Subsection (b) (i) be amended by striking the word “or”, and Subsection (ii), (A) and (B) be amended by striking.

  • EGP General Regulation Section 7, Subsection (a) be amended by adding the word “or”, Section 7 Subsection (b) be amended by striking the word “or”, and Subsection (c) be amended by striking.
  • EGP General Regulation Section 13, Subsection (1)(e)(ii) be amended by striking, Subsection (iii) be renumbered (ii), and Subsection (iv) be renumbered (iii) and amended by replacing “(i), (ii) or (iii)” with “(i) or (ii)”.

Council's Position

Passed at 2016 Annual General Meeting

Recommendation

Remove the university student category from the General Regulation and include them in the Bylaws.

Council's Position

Endorsed by Council