Proposed changes to By-law No. 60 regarding annual registration fee

I am at the end of my career and was hoping to continue to help smaller sites as a casual technologist. I started my career as a member of the BRT(Board of Radiological Technologists)paying $60 membership fees. Then the sudden move to double this amount as BRT changed their head office from Brantford to Toronto, a move CMRITO must still have to justify. Fiscal responsibility is necessary and hitting up your members for this is unjustified without first explaining why you have such an increase in Human Resource costs. Tis a sad way to end a career and I hope you can find ways to clarify to the membership this hike in fees. Transparency is necessary moving forward to help keep your membership strong. Reading a lot of doubt in people’s career path and I can tell you it was a wonderful career that I chose to serve the public and I am fearful for the future of imaging.

37% increase in fees during a crisis of healthcare worker shortages, where wages barely reflect cost of living seems entirely unfair.. would be courteous to see what financial goals we are helping to meet

Hi there, I am a immigrant to Canada and with great financial difficulties as suffered during my initial settling period, however I am still able to earn my CMRITO’s designation. The next step was to get the Sonographer’s job, obviously without not much Canadian experience I am not getting adequate pay rate. Hence, after this propose in substantial increase in annual fee, it would be really difficult for me to pay my increase annual fee. Alternatively, I would suggest that CMRITO’s management must seek some kind of Governmental assistance instead of putting directly burden on its members. Thanks…..

A 36% increase without any consultation or warning is really unacceptable. With the addition of ultrasound to the college the fees collected must have substantially increased in the last few years. Additionally since we also need liability insurance this is not the only yearly registration we are REQUIRED to pay just to work.

A 36% increase in fees is quite shocking. A much smaller increase was expected. I respect the work that CMRITO performs but this is going to upset many members including myself. I hope the audit committee changes their mind on this extreme increase.

There should not be a sudden increase of such a large amount all at once. This makes income much more difficult when Sonography pay does not compensate for this increase. It would make more sense to only make increases by 5% or less per year to give workplaces and their workers time to adjust to such change. Increasing the cost for registration by almost $200 all at once may put large financial burdens on working Sonographers. This will likely deter Sonographers from the profession within Ontario when we are already in high demand. CMRITO protects the public, not us Sonographers, so this feels like an unnecessary increase in cost for us to keep our registration when we are already paying such a large amount for our current registration, as well as our Canadian licence and PLI through Sonography Canada. All of these costs add up, and if they keep increasing the profession will no longer be sustainable at our current wages.

I disagree and don't think increasing the members' registration fee will ultimately help reach these goals that are being set out. The increase is extreme.

Even considering a fee increase can give rise to a concerning precedent. After 2028, is yet another fee increase going to be proposed? Some of us are doing all we can to get by financially. This proposal does not help. Do not increase it now and do not increase it later either.

I'm a xray technologist. This is ridiculous. How can you even justify this increase? We work so hard and hardly get a raise. Nurses make so much more when we once made similar income to them. We should be making just as much as them and OPSEU hasn't fought for that. How much more do we need to pay to get hardly anything in return?! You're really making this career unattractive to many. This used to be a job that paid well and had its benefits. Not anymore.

I think this is absolutely absurd! How can you increase that much in one year, between cost of living and gas prices and everything thing else this is completely unacceptable! I don’t not understand how our yearly dues are the most expensive ones compared to nursing for example… I don’t not agree with this

This is unacceptable. Please reduce spending costs rather than increasing fees.

This is ridiculous. How can you make an increase by $173?? Not for this at all

I never did understand why there is such a difference in registration fees from the CMRITO and the ARRT. A $400+ Difference in fees for the same service.

The registration fee is already too high compared to the other colleges. The salaries of members for the colleges with higher fees are significantly higher than the salaries of members that pay into the CMRITO. The registration fees being increased I do not support. The college did not help members during our struggle throughout the pandemic. The college does not provide members any benefits to justify this change. Our current fee is already outrageous since we have not had proper support from the college. This change will drive members out of Ontario and into the ARRT or other provincial colleges during a time where Ontario needs its healthcare workers.

I strongly disagree with the proposed changes regarding increase in the annual fee . Fee is already high enough and any further increase will put considerable financial burden on the sonographers

This is totally unacceptable. We are the highest membership paying healthcare providers. We should have a reduction in the rate rather then an increase.

The increase is not justified. A virtual organization should not have a very expensive lease in downtown Toronto. The 37% increase is an insult to the profession. We have worked short for the last few years and cannot keep up with recruitment. No other regulated healthcare profession pays fees this high. Time to restructure staffing. We have to find efficiencies and cut costs every year..time to do the same. Do more with less..that is what we have had to work with for the last 10 years. Truly insulted that this was even brought forward with the high cost of living and the way we were treated during covid.

In the current economic environment where the cost of living is already extremely high, increasing fees by nearly 40% for a license required for us to continue to make a living seems in bad taste.

Current proposed fee change is a significant increase, which is upsetting to many technologist, especially considering the vague language surrounding the necessity of the increase. More transparency regarding the cost breakdown should be provided to us who are expected to pay the dues. In addition, thorough consideration should be given to what areas could/should receive less funding in order to lower costs rather than increasing fees.

I’d like to express my concerns regarding the proposed increase in licensing fees. This change could impose significant financial burdens on members, especially while already facing economic challenges. Instead of raising fees, we should explore alternative funding sources or cost-saving measures that could sustain operations without driving up costs for license holders. It's crucial to consider the potential negative impact on our already short-staffed community and the economy as a whole. When comparing regulatory colleges, the fees CMRITO members are currently paying already well exceed the fees paid by other colleges of bodies with similar salary. With the high use of digital technology in current times, the postage budget should already be saving the college a great amount. Seeing as the operations of this college could be done from almost any location, perhaps there should be more thought in moving out of Toronto and the astronomical costs associated with that location. In my opinion it is extremely disgusting, irresponsible and pathetic to increase fees that were already exorbitant in the first place. Why such a drastic increase!?