Membership

The Canadian Language Industry Association (CLIA), formerly AILIA, is Canada’s national not-for-profit trade association for the language industry. We give our members a unified voice to represent and defend their economic interests in today’s global, competitive marketplace.

CLIA works with members and industry stakeholders to:

• Facilitate collaboration

• Increase the profile of the language industry

• Share information and encourage networking

• Promote growth across all sectors

Why Join

When you join CLIA, you become part of a collective that helps you:

• Build your business

• Understand and influence market trends

• Expand and strengthen the Canadian marketplace

• Strive for product and service excellence in your sector

• Shape Canada’s role in the global marketplace

How CLIA supports you

CLIA helps you be an active participant in Canada’s language industry by:

• Providing a forum to share your views

• Supporting professional development

• Identifying and facilitating market opportunities

• Sharing industry information that impacts your business

• Promoting industry sectors and building market presence across Canada

• Forming partnerships to consolidate industry interests

• Representing your interests at all levels of government

• Participating in program and policy development at national and international levels

• Advocating collectively on issues that reflect members’ interests

• Exchanging research and information

• Leveraging the association’s status to obtain group purchase benefits

• Building recognition and networking in the industry

• Participating in events and conferences

We also invite members to join our sector-based committees and working groups, where they can help shape tangible strategies for the future success of our industry.

All members are expected to respect the CLIA Code of Conduct.

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Join the Canadian Language Industry Association as a:

• Corporate Member

• Associate / Non-Profit Member (within the language industry)

• International Associate Member

• Individual Member

• Student Member

See category details here.