I'm a member of ICAA and ICABC. I wish I had the same news out of BC but there they are still deciding what recommendations to make to the provincial government and whether or not they want a vote.
In this round of merger talks I have seen that ICAA didn't really want to merge and ICABC really, really did. I received multiple communications saying how it was the best way to go forward and that all of us who were against it were wrong. Hopefully BC follows suit with Alberta.
Maybe the CGAs and CMAs can do what is now in the States and become a CGMA.
www.cgma.org.
It's funny that CICA was telling us we needed to go to CPA because it's what the States has and we need to consolidate the designations. Meanwhile, the States created a new one. I don't know how big it is or what it encompasses, but it seems to be what would happen if the two designations merged in Canada.