[IPAC-List] Where were we?

[Mark Hammer]

So, you would think that with all the know-how out there about on-line testing, and specifically unproctored on-line testing, that something like this never should have happened.  But it happened anyway.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/05/20/boat-operators-card.html

Abstract: Canadian federal law introduced a requirement for pleasure-craft boaters to have a "proof of competency" card.  The exam to obtain that "proof" could be done on-line and unproctored, with apparently no safeguards built in.

Colour me officially embarrassed for my government.

So where *were* we, that this could happen?  How come nobody asked us?  Reid, you come to town often enough.  How in the dickens did they miss you?

Mark Hammer
Ottawa