Prof. Izumi Sakamoto influences Ontario Human Rights Commission’s new policy on Canadian experience barrier…

Understanding the Ontario Human Rights Commission policy

Professor Izumi Sakamoto quoted on Toronto Star article: “Ontario Human Rights Commission eases way for foreign professionals in Canada” (Toronto Star, Sept. 15, 2013).
http://www.thestar.com/business/personal_finance/2013/09/15/ontario_human_rights_commission_eases_way_for_foreign_professionals_in_canada.html

Read Professor Sakamoto’s Op-Ed in Toronto Star (July 16, 2013), “Tearing down the ‘Canadian experience’ roadblock: Relevant experience as relevant experience, regardless of the geography”:http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2013/07/16/tearing_down_the_canadian_experience_roadblock.html

Professor Sakamoto quoted in Toronto Star article reporting the Launch of the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC)’s new “Policy on Removing Canadian Experience Barrier” on July 15, 2013:
http://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2013/07/15/demanding_canadian_experience_from_newcomers_may_breach_ontarios_human_rights_code.html

UofT News: Why “Canadian experience” violates human rights
http://www.news.utoronto.ca/why-canadian-experience-violates-human-rights

Coverage on this news can also be accessed from the University of Toronto’s home page http://www.utoronto.ca

Read more about Professor Sakamoto’s research on Canadian experience:
– Beyond Canadian Experience Project (with Professor Lin Fang, Mennonite New Life Centre Toronto, Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter, Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council): http://www.beyondcanadianexperience.com/

– Canadian Experience Media Project (with Professors Rupaleem Bhuyan and Lin Fang, Doctoral candidate Daphne Jeyapal (FIFSW) & Professor Jane Ku, University of Windsor): http://beyondcanadianexperience.com/research/discourses-of-skilled-immigrants-canadian-experience