Abbreviation | CVO |
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Formation | 24 September 1874 |
Type | Regulatory body |
Headquarters | Guelph, Ontario, Canada |
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Region | Ontario, Canada |
President | Dr. Alana Parisi |
Registrar | Jan Robinson [1] |
Website | www |
The College of Veterinarians of Ontario is the body charged by the Government of Ontario with regulating practising veterinarians in the province. [2] [3] [4] The authority comes from the Veterinarians Act, RSO 1990, c V.3. [2] It is also Ontario's only regulatory college to not be headquartered in Toronto: its head office is in Guelph, Ontario the location of the Ontario Veterinary College which is the province's only post-secondary institution providing training in veterinary medicine.
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