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Your responsibilities toward CRPO
CRPO's Standard 1.1: answering CRPO in writing within 30 days, co-operating with investigations, orders, undertakings and terms on your certificate, Quality Assurance, attending a caution, and complying with a suspension.
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Standard 1.1
- Fulfil your obligations to CRPO and communicate with its staff appropriately and professionally (1.1.1, 1.1.2).
- Reply appropriately and within 30 days to a written inquiry or request (1.1.3).
- Fully cooperate during an investigation (1.1.4).
- Comply with orders of a committee or panel (1.1.5).
- Keep any undertaking or agreement made with CRPO (1.1.6).
- Comply with all terms, conditions, and limitations on your certificate (1.1.7).
- Participate fully in the mandatory parts of the Quality Assurance Program (1.1.8).
Answering CRPO
- Formal written contact, including by email, needs a response within 30 days.
- Appropriate means complete (all the information asked), accurate and in writing.
- Within the 30 days you may ask for an extension for extenuating circumstances; if granted, answer in full by the new date.
Investigations and cautions
- Cooperate promptly, including access to facilities, records, or equipment; no rude, threatening or obstructive behaviour toward the investigator.
- Once another college shows it has appointed an investigator, cooperate with them too.
- An ICRC order to attend a caution is mandatory: a private meeting with an advisory and educational warning.
A suspension
- CRPO has sole authority to suspend, for unpaid fees or a committee decision; do not practise while suspended.
- Receive no benefit or income, directly or indirectly, from your professional status, and keep records that show it.
- Only the Executive Committee may grant an exemption, case by case, with full disclosure, before any benefit.
- Plan for contingency: who would manage your practice if you were suspended.
The misconduct rules
- Failing to reply appropriately within 30 days (O. Reg. 317/12, para. 50).
- Breaching an order of a panel, an undertaking or an agreement (paras. 47 and 49).
- Breaching a term, condition or limitation (para. 44); benefiting while suspended without approval (para. 46).
Meeting the standard
- Read CRPO's correspondence to stay aware of your obligations, and reply when asked.
- Meet CRPO's deadlines and tell CRPO in advance of a foreseeable delay.
- Under an employer's, an association's or another college's rules, meet CRPO's standards as well.
Read what CRPO sends, answer in writing within 30 days, cooperate, keep every order, undertaking and term, and never practise or profit while suspended.