Need advice from a Canadian re CIP!

[Cismontane]

Hoping somebody who is a CIP member might be able to help me out with some friendly advice. I'd like to apply for full membership in the Canadian Institute of Planners. I'm an American AICP. I'm joining now as an associate member and, as I understand it, under the reciprocity deal, I can apply for membership upon passing a written and oral exam. Does anyone know anything about this exam, how involved it is, who administers it, and how one prepares for it? Any advice would be appreciated.

[Howl]

CIP is made up of a number of regional affiliate planning associations:

APPI - Alberta Professional Planners Institute
APCPS - Association of Professional Community Planners of Saskatchewan
API - Atlantic Planners Institute
MPPI - Manitoba Professional Planners Institute
OPPI - Ontario Professional Planners Institute
OUQ - Ordre des urbanistes du Québec
PIBC - Planning Institute of British Columbia

My understanding is CIP sets minimum standards for membership but each affiliate has their own membership requirements and procedures, and then administers their own members. I’m not sure if you can get a CIP membership without going through one of the affiliates. If you can’t I’d suggest researching each affiliate to see who has the easiest/quickest membership process and sign up through them.

[Thurgood]

There's a page on the CIP website about this. Check it out.

http://www.cip-icu.ca/web/la/en/pa/6...F/template.asp

[Cismontane]

Howl, As an American, you apply directly to CIP. You're not allowed to go through the provinces. There's a special category for AICPs (and certified Brits and Aussies), but you only become MCIP nationally.

I'm just trying to get some insight on the exam, since that's the same for Canadians and foreigners.

[DetroitPlanner]

Howl, As an American, you apply directly to CIP. You're not allowed to go through the provinces. There's a special category for AICPs (and certified Brits and Aussies), but you only become MCIP nationally.

I'm just trying to get some insight on the exam, since that's the same for Canadians and foreigners.

Wow thats interesting. I've never really looked into this. Considering about 400k of metro Detroit's population is in Ontario, I would have thought linkages to planners in ON would be a good idea, but it seems discouraged at the national level?

[Cismontane]

Wow thats interesting. I've never really looked into this. Considering about 400k of metro Detroit's population is in Ontario, I would have thought linkages to planners in ON would be a good idea, but it seems discouraged at the national level?

I don't know. Maybe it's just an ON thing. I worked on quite a few Canadian projects, but ON's CIP chapter has a residency requirement for membership. You have to live inthe province to qualify. But you can still join CIP if you have the AICP by taking the exam. I'm just trying to figure out how difficult the exam is and how much preparation I should plan to do.