Society
Representatives meet with Senior Environment Ministry
Staff
April 2003
The Society stepped
up its advocacy efforts at Queen's Park this Spring
to ensure that the voice of engineers is heard
on the critical Brownfields issue. Meeting with
Senior Environment Ministry staff, representatives
from the Society's Brownfields Working Group continued
to fight against the Ontario Ministry of the Environment's
proposed move to equate the work of professional
engineers and engineering technologists in draft
regulations created under the Brownfields Statue
Law Amendment Act, 2001.
The meeting with Senior Environment Ministry
Staff is the most recent in a series of advocacy
efforts the Society has undertaken on the Brownfields
issue and with the final regulations poised to
be presented to the Provincial cabinet for approval
in the coming weeks, the working group is busy
drafting proposed changes to the regulation. Representatives
from the Working group will be meeting with the
Environment Minster Norm Sterling, MPP, P.Eng.
to discuss the issue and will write to each of
Ontario's 26 cabinet ministers to detail our concerns
about the naming of Applied Science Technologists
and Certified Engineering Technologists as "qualified
persons."
While recognizing that technologists are important
members of the engineering team, Chair Robert
A. Goodings, P.Eng. noted that the OACETT Act
does not make technologists publicly accountable
for their work.
The Society's position emphasized that this lack
of accountability could leave the Environment
Ministry ultimately responsible for work done
by engineering technologists. Professional engineers,
on the other hand, are fully accountable for their
actions under the Professional Engineers Act.
Until the final vote on the draft regulations
takes place, the Society will continue to reach
out to the Environment Ministry and provincial
cabinet, urging them to carefully consider the
position of Ontario's engineers.
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