Canadian Examiners in Optometry (CEO) is a not-for-profit corporation whose shareholders are the ten provincial Regulators. CEO was created by the Regulators to address matters of common interest. These include:

• describing the profession as practised in Canada, including describing quality practice,
• assessing the competence of individual optometrists in the practice of optometry and providing the assessment results to the individuals and to relevant regulators,
• providing mechanisms to evaluate the quality of practice of optometrists in Canada.