Amendments to Agreement on Internal Trade (ATI)
In January 2009, Canada’s premiers agreed to amend the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT) to remove labour mobility barriers for certified workers so they will be able to move freely to work where opportunities exist.
Click here for specific amendments made to Chapter 7 of the AIT in order to help resolve labour mobility challenges that continued to face certain regulated occuapations.
Exceptions to Full Labour Mobility
The Labour Mobility chapter of the Agreement on Internal Trade allows each province or territory to approve exceptions and maintain additional certification requirements for workers in specific occupations based on:
- public security and safety
- public order
- protection of human, animal or plant life or health
- protection of the environment
- consumer protection
- protection of the health, safety and well-being of workers
- provision of adequate social and health services to all its geographic regions, and
- programs for disadvantaged groups.
Agreement on Internal Trade
Overview of the Agreement on Internal Trade
A Consolidation of the Agreement on Internal Trade 2015
(The original Agreement as modified by subsequent protocols of amendment)
Text of the Agreement and subsequent protocols of amendment
- Agreement on Internal Trade (July 1,1995)
- First Protocol of Amendment (November 29, 1995)
- Second Protocol of Amendment (February 20, 1998)
- Third Protocol of Amendment (April 17, 1999) — incorporates the MASH Annex
- Fourth Protocol of Amendment (February 28, 2001)
- Fifth Protocol of Amendment (April 2, 2004)
- Sixth Protocol of Amendment (January 1, 2005) — incorporates the Crown Annex
- Seventh Protocol of Amendment (May 2, 2007)
- Eighth Protocol of Amendment (February 4, 2009)
- Ninth Protocol of Amendment (August 11, 2009)
- Tenth Protocol of Amendment (October 7, 2009)
- Eleventh Protocol of Amendment (November 8, 2010)
- Twelfth Protocol of Amendment (August 16, 2012)
- Thirteenth Protocol of Amendment (December 19, 2012)
- Fourteenth Protocol of Amendment (February 18, 2015)