Core competencies for Canada's regulatory community

In the Health Products and federal government, with other governments in Canada and abroad, and Food Branch Western Region she was with businesses and Canadians.”3 While these are not new requirements Head of Policy, Planning and Outreach of the regulatory community, the CDSR brings a sharper focus and and Senior Advisor to the Child and lends a greater sense of urgency to the need to strengthen t [...] The full effect of the Nancy Wildgoose was a Director General departure of the Baby Boomers is predicted to begin to be felt in the of policy with the Department of National Defense and CIDA. [...] They are charged to collaborate with the Community of Federal Regulators and the Canada School of Public Service “to facilitate the development and promotion of best practices and learning opportunities for federal regulators.”7 Defining Core Competencies The concept of competency-based human resource management was first introduced in the Government of Canada in the late 1990s, and has since been [...] In the first of these studies, A Learning and Community Building Strategy for the Regulatory Community, the authors point out that, in their focus groups and in earlier studies, members of the regulatory committee have identified the need for a formal career development framework which features the “required competencies for a career and requirements that need to be satisfied to attain each compet [...] If the CFR is to be able to provide the leadership needed to build, implement, and maintain a set of Core Competencies and related training there must be an on-going investment of time and money by departments and agencies, the CSPS, universities and colleges, and other players, and not only in their own approaches but in making the CFR a robust centre.