Canada relies on more than 300,000 licensed security guards, yet in much of the country we ask them to prove very little. If our profession wants public trust, it has to invest where the public actually meets it.
Think about the last time you dealt with private security in Canada. It probably was not a consultant or a security director. It was a guard: the person at the hospital entrance at 2:00 in the morning, the one who asked you to step back on a transit platform, or the one who helped a lost child find a parent at the mall.
To most Canadians, that person is the security industry. Yet entry requirements vary sharply across Canada. In some jurisdictions, a person can enter licensed security work without mandatory formal pre-licensing training.
