Several Certified General Accountant (CGA) organizations have returned to unification discussions with the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada).
CGA-Canada originally broke off unification discussions with the CPA Canada in May 2012.
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Today, CGA Canada, the designation’s national body, along with its international affiliates in Asia and the Caribbean and CGA bodies in the Northwest Territories/Nunavut, Yukon, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia announced that they too are rejoining the discussions. With this announcement, the only CGA organizations not participating in unification are Ontario and Manitoba.
With the returning bodies included, organizations representing almost 90 per cent of Canada’s professional accountants are committed to unification under the CPA banner.
Unification has already taken place in the province of Quebec. CPA Quebec and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario (ICAO) became the first organizations to join CPA Canada earlier this year. Other provincial bodies will join CPA Canada once implementing legislation is passed.
If unification is achieved with the current participants, the CPA profession will be more than 150,000 members strong and better positioned to represent the interests of members both in Canada and on the global stage.