Nursing Compact Licensure Comes to Canada

While the US nurse staffing crisis continues, the same is happening in Canada. Before the current Prime Minister (Justin Trudeau) took power, his predecessor (Stephen Harper) made attempts to help recruit US nurses to Canada and lighten the red tape, but that ended with their election cycle that brought PM Trudeau into office.

Now the Provincial Governments are taking it upon themselves to address the nursing crisis. The Ontario Provincial administration, led by Doug Ford, is introducing legislation to allow nurses from other provinces to immediately practice in Ontario without having to register in Ontario.

As you would expect, the nurses’ union will have an opinion on this. In the US, the holdouts of compact legislation are the heavily unionized states.