Engineers Canada Submission to the Standing Committee on International Trade

265 mailto:nathan.durham@engineerscanada.ca Overview Engineers Canada thanks the Standing Committee on International Trade for seeking the views of Canadians regarding the 2026 Review of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement. [...] Priorities for 2026 CUSMA Review As the Committee studies the priorities of Canadians for the six-year review of CUSMA in 2026, Engineers Canada recommends that Canada work to maintain the 2018 amendments to Annex 15- C of Chapter 15 – Cross Border Trade in Services, including: 1. [...] Advancing mobility of engineers between Canada, Mexico, and the United States Canada’s 12 provincial and territorial engineering regulators have long acknowledged the need to establish transparent and equitable systems for recognizing the credentials of engineers trained outside of Canada. [...] The purpose of the accord is to facilitate the expeditious review of the academic credentials of an applicant engineer from one party by the licensing/regulatory body of another party. [...] During the 2017 renegotiation, Engineers Canada and the regulators suggested new language to facilitate the development of MRAs between the parties.