PGO 2025 Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Member Survey

Professional Geoscientists Ontario (PGO) recognizes that the lands on which we live and carry out our work are on the traditional territories of many nations of Indigenous people. As the regulator of the geoscience profession, the PGO recognizes that it serves an essential role in fostering Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) and Truth and Reconciliation in the profession. Building on the 2021 EDI survey, this voluntary survey aims to inform PGO’s efforts to increase the awareness and understanding by PGO’s registrants and system partners in equity, diversity and inclusion as it relates to PGO’s standards of professional practice and mandate of protecting the public.

Prairie Catalyst Consulting Corp, a Saskatoon-based EDI consulting company, has been engaged to administer and analyze the survey. The decision to outsource the survey was made to obtain expert independent external management of the data.

The results of this voluntary survey will be compiled exclusively by Prairie Catalyst Consulting and shared with PGO in summary form only. No identifying individual responses will be shared with PGO and data will be combined to prevent the identification of any individuals. As such, PGO will not receive information related to individual cases. If you want to file a complaint about a Professional Geoscientist please visit Report a Registered Geoscientist. Your data may be retained by Prairie Catalyst for up to three years to allow for comparison with future surveys that PGO may wish to conduct, before being destroyed.

This voluntary survey should take 15 minutes to complete. You do not need to answer all survey questions, and should you be unwilling to answer specific questions you may skip questions or exit the survey at any time.

Your participation in this voluntary survey will give you the opportunity to share your ideas and experiences regarding advancing Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Truth and Reconciliation within the Ontario Geoscience profession, which ultimately supports PGO’s mandate of protecting the public. To better understand EDI and Truth and Reconciliation as it relates to PGO, please refer to PGO's EDI Professional Practice Guideline. If you have any questions or concerns about the survey, please contact Jocelyn Peltier-Huntley from Prairie Catalyst (jocelyn@prairiecatalyst.ca) or contact PGO directly at diversity@pgo.ca.