CCPG Obtains Funding to Support Development of Geoscience Professional Practice Guidelines Framework
The Canadian Council of Professional Geoscientists (CCPG)—the national organization of the 10 provincial and territorial licensing bodies that regulate the practice of geoscience in Canada— has been granted $95,000 in support funding from the federal government to assist the development of a collective framework for geoscience professional practice guidelines over the next 10 months. The funding assistance has been provided as a part of the government’s focus to facilitate the mobility of regulated professionals under Chapter 7 of Canada’s Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT).
Named the GPPG Project (Geoscience Professional Practice Guidelines), this initiative will seek to build on the considerable work already undertaken by individual licensing bodies. The project objective is the development of a collective framework that will facilitate adaptation of existing geoscience professional practice guidelines to be made consistent and available to other licensing bodies for use in their jurisdictions, and that will allow for the creation of new consistent professional practice guideline materials that can be used as the basis for future geoscience guidelines to be developed by licensing bodies for use in their jurisdictions.
Creation of a national framework for geoscience professional practice guidelines is intended to provide greater cohesiveness and public protection nationally. Says CCPG President Gary Vivian, P.Geol., “Having such a framework will not only provide greater overall protection of the public across Canada; it will be a considerable benefit to the profession as a whole.”