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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.
Somebody told you the requirement three years ago. They were right then.
Nobody sends a letter when it changes.
Requiring Canadian work experience was for years a standard barrier in regulated professions — you needed local experience to be licensed, and needed the licence to get local experience.
The survival-job trap, written into a regulation.
It was recognised as such, and it was changed.
As of July 2025, regulators in British Columbia can no longer require Canadian work experience as a condition of registration.
A barrier that shaped people's decisions for years simply stopped applying.
When a requirement like that is removed, how do affected people usually learn?
People stop applying, retrain into something else, or leave. Years after the obstacle is gone.
The belief outlives the rule.
Any requirement you were told about more than a year ago is worth confirming before you plan around it.
That is a short task and it can return years.
Where does a current rule live?
Tap an item, then a bucket
Not is it hard, but: what exactly is required today, and when did that last change?
The second half of that question is the one nobody asks.
Labour shortages, court decisions and political pressure move these rules in clusters.
So a period of change in one place often means others are moving too.
The rule that stopped you may not exist any more, and nobody will tell you. Recheck anything older than a year, with the body that sets it, and ask when it last changed.