A CMHC document titled Hiring a Home Inspector posted at:
http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/co/buho/buho_001.cfm is also being circulated to home inspectors.
Below is a sample letter in protest and encourage all to participate.
To: media@cmhc-schl.gc.ca
Re: Hiring a Home Inspector
[FONT=Arial]Dear Kristen or Julie,[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Kristen Scheel
Media Relations Officer
613-748-4632
Julie Girard
Media Relations Officer
613-748-4684
As a Home Inspector and customer of CMHC, I was quite dismayed that included with my last order was a pamphlet entitled “Hiring a Home Inspector” wherein your Corporation endorsed one specific trade association.
*As a taxpayer, CMHC customer and a certified Canadian home inspector, I was shocked to read that CMHC would align itself in recommending one trade association over another. *
*There is another association of Professional Home Inspectors in Canada, the National Association of Certified Home Inspectors (NACHI) with over 600 Canadian members from coast to coast and over 9900 members nationally. *
By being a member of this association, we are subscribing to a stringent Code of Ethic, Standards of Practice, and ongoing educational requirements.
Your article on the topic makes us sound like we shouldn’t be in business nor deserve consumer’s confidence.
As a Canadian taxpayer, I find that a government-funded corporation’s use of MY tax dollars being used to malign an organization to which I belong to & which adheres to a strict code of ethics & standards of practice is unfair.
CMHC should not be recommending one association but rather all Canadian Associations.
*I am requesting that you immediately consider altering your website and documents relating to “Hiring a Home Inspector” *
Thank you.
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