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

This is an absurd suggested increase to our annual dues. Why is the large increase necessary? Everyone in this economy is looking for ways to save or cutback. How can you even ask for each member to pay this much more?

This is absolutely ridiculous. There has to be another way to reach your financial goal. For example, find a place that is less expensive to rent. The profession is already losing members, and this will only enhance that.

I am against such a drastically unrealistic increase in our fees for registered health professionals that have been unappreciated and seen very little or no wage increases in, at least the last few years, likely much longer. I’m not sure who is making financial decisions but not increasing your fees regularly in the past should not result in current registrants paying a 36% (195$ including tax) increase within one year. You are telling us by this admission that many members have had a break financially their entire careers and now we are all struggling with inflation everywhere and your financial board has decided we have to make up for your poor financial decisions over the last 32 years. These fees are already significantly higher than most registered health professionals. Many of us are struggling. Maybe you should make a more reasonable proposal and consider that you saying it’s been 13 years since the last increase in fees isn’t our doing but now we are being charged with paying for the problem it has somehow created. That doesn’t make us feel better about this.

Absolutely NO! The purposed increase is ridiculous and unwarranted.

I do not believe the registration fee should be increased. Most members of CMRITO are also members of other boards. As a diagnostic medical sonographer I also pay for registration fees for Sonography Canada and ARDMS. My combined fees are around $800 every year. If CMRITO were to increase by another $200 that would put my annual registration costs at around $1000. On top of this, we also have expenses in order to keep up with continuing education such as taking courses and attending seminars so that we can have enough continuing education hours for all of our registries.

I believe the fees should not be raised, Ontario (specifically northern Ontario) is currently facing a staffing crisis, raising the fees is not appealing to new graduates and does not attract students to the program. Additionally, the MRTs are already paying 470$, why does the price need to change to meet goals by 2028? Shouldn’t we be focussing on recruiting more radiation therapists? Perhaps by keeping the price but recruiting more therapists to meet the demand we could achieve the same goal. It just seems ridiculous to raise the price such a significant amount rather than addressing the problem at hand. Thank you for your time and consideration.

We are in a critical shortage if MRTs province wide. We want to attract MRTs from schools and out of province. A giant $173 (36%!!) hike doesn't accomplish that.

I don’t support it at all. First nurses pay a lesser fee but get paid more than us and I have trained and specialized to do things such as scrubbing in and PICC lines which always were nurses duties. Unless you can guarantee us equal wage as an RN and even Equal respect as we aren’t recognized by the public… absolutely no support for this

This is absurd. Especially because this is a pre tax value. Nurses don’t pay this much and get much more recognition across the board. We’re already under valued and extremely understaffed. This will not help our case.

I'm opposed to the increasing annual fee.

When you factor in the fact that CMRITO does not provide liability insurance with our annual registration before the increase we already have the highest fees out of any MRT association in all of Canada and now with this increase, we have widened that gap even more. A 35% increase at once with zero explanation why is not fair to the members that you represent.

There is so need to increase the annual fee. The current economic situation with rising inflation does not support this proposed change. Majority of CMRITO registrants are also members of other mandatory regulatory bodies and have to pay the annual fees for those as well.

What does this registration fee do every year? We got no benefits, no webinar, nothing! So disappointed

Our license fee has always been much higher than other professions that hold just as much responsibility as us, if not more. We are already paying twice what the CNO charges nurses for annual fee. A 37% increase is unacceptable, on top of that, we have to provide our own PLI at our own fees. Many of us are still paying ridiculous amounts of money for our college debts too. Looking back into Covid, we were also deemed non-essential and did not get the raise most Healthcare workers had. Please reconsider this drastic change and look at other options to balance the budget.

Raising the annual cost will ultimately serve as a deterrent to attract/ retain individuals

Though, we finally received some reasonable compensation for the dramatic increases in the cost of living, I feel that an increase to our fees in excess of 36% to be too much. I understand that increases are needed but perhaps half that amount would be acceptable

Please provide more insight as to why a nearly 37% increase is needed in one year. This is highly suggestive of poor financial management as clearly the organization has not been on track to meet it's 2028 financial goals for some time, if an increase this steep is required. Given the current climate of inflation, I foresee this increase causing a lot of undue hardship to many members. Please outline what the benefits are that we will be receiving from this increase. And what the 2028 financial goals are.

Thanks for the opportunity to leave a comment. I personally am disappointed in the major increase in fees as I already have trouble paying the current fees. With all fee hikes from food, housing I cant believe its on this also. With shortage on workers and working conditions its another kick. Disappointing

Please do not increase fees for registration. The college should focus more on advocating for our wages, health, pandemic pay/compensation above anything else.

This is an unreasonable increase in fees. Our wage increases were stonewalled by the province for years by Bill 124 and minimal increases definitely have not been in line with COLA. The College's poor financial planning is now becoming your registrant's problem. Perhaps a sooner review and better planning over the last 32 years would have presented a better opportunity to implement a reasonable fee schedule. Shame on the executive of the College to even suggest a ~36% increase in the fee structure. You are placing front line MRTs in a very precarious position. Please review your financials and impose a reasonable fee structure!