One question,eight answers on social media.
The government has only one. It is in English, four menus deep.
Search how long you have to exchange a foreign driver's licence and you will find 90 days, six months, and "you don't, just use an international permit".
All upvoted. All written by someone describing their own experience.
The actual answer: 90 days in Alberta, 90 in British Columbia, 60 in Ontario.
Nobody lied. They were describing their province. The reader was in a different one.
It is not dishonesty. Retelling itself loses things.
- ✕Rules change; posts do not. A screenshot from three years ago is still circulating.
- ✕Provinces differ, and a post rarely says which one it is about.
- ✕By the third retelling, the conditions and exceptions have fallen off.
- ✕The numbers that matter most (how many days, how much, which threshold) are the easiest to misremember.
Report the official page, and put the link at the foot of every guide.
Back to the source each time
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Links have to resolve
Every URL in a finished guide is opened before it publishes. That check has caught a government link a model invented.
Say which province
Provincial rules differ, so every claim states where it applies.
Say when we do not know
If the official page omits a fee or a deadline, we write that it is not stated rather than supplying a plausible number.
We do not advise.
We will not tell you which option to pick, how to maximise a benefit, or when to start a pension.
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What we can do is set out what the government says, show you the page it came from, and leave the judgement to you or to someone qualified.
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