The CCC is not required to teach in certain places. the reason being is that the CCC is a designation made by the ccfcc which is a voluntary association which does not have governance over provincial and federal jurisdictions. It also only represents a small percentage of chefs and cooks throughout the country by paying members(of which I have been for 15 years). Like in an above post it was mentioned that a red seal with a diploma in post secondary education is the minimum in a lot of places. Degrees in education are a bonus and often reflect in various pay scales