Office of the Manitoba Fairness Commissioner (OFMC)

The Fair Registration Practices Office (FRPO) administers The Fair Registration Practices in Regulated Professions Act and ensures the registration practices of self-regulated professions in Manitoba are fair and transparent. They proactively ensure professions under the Act comply with domestic trade agreements; formally entrench the requirement for regulators to ensure assessment criteria used for registration are necessary to the practice of the profession; obligate regulatory bodies to notify the FRPO of changes to their assessment and registration practices prior to implementation; provide for the development of a regulation to establish timeliness standards for the registration of qualified internationally educated applicants; and authorize the Minister to issue compliance orders to regulated professions that have shown serious, repeated unwillingness to follow recommendations of the Minister.