When the rules change in your favour

A short read

Before we start

Requirements change, and the specific example here is one province in one country at one date. The method is the point: how to check whether a rule you were told about still exists. Always confirm with the body that sets the rule, not with anyone else.

Sources

British Columbia: as of July 2025 regulators may no longer require Canadian work experience as a condition of registration, removing a long-standing circular barrier in regulated professions
The general point that requirement changes are not communicated to people who have already given up, since no register of them exists, so stale beliefs outlive the rules that created them