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On May 23 in Toronto, Monte McNaughton, the Ontario Minister of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development announced that Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) is the first professional association in the province to remove the Canadian work experience requirement from their application criteria. The minister says removing the Canadian work experience requirement will help qualified professionals

- Professional Engineers Ontario first regulated profession to remove Canadian experience requirement following provincial legislation - The Ontario government

Internationally-trained engineers will now be able to get their license in Ontario without Canadian work experience.

Roughly 300,000 jobs continue to go unfilled across the province every day, including thousands in engineering, costing billions in lost productivity.