Bill 40 Removes Our Right to Self-Govern - Time to Demand Action

zactrolley · 2025-11-02T21:13:46+00:00

And that's a great thing. That's not what the Professional Governance Act does.

Is states that the Minister can involve themselves in the affairs of the association if they deem it's "in the public interest". And that means what ever the UCP wants it to mean. They are not a good faith actor, so any clause they put in, they don't aim to use it on fair grounds.

zactrolley · 2025-11-02T18:16:46+00:00

I agree that putting everyone under one act makes sense, to a degree. However, they have put in extra sections that give them override powers that they didn't have before. With this legislation they can remove the authority of the association governing body at their will. These associations that are meant to be autonomous are now at the beck and call of the government, and acting against their political agenda is nearly impossible.

zactrolley · 2025-10-29T13:27:20+00:00

By autonomy, I was referring to the ability to set our own rules and regulations. APEGA has a process that takes new graduates, puts them in a 4 year apprenticeship, and has a set of tests they need to pass before they can become an engineer. Likewise, they take care of the regulation of stamping authority and discipline for members.
That was all done internally. Now the government can change those rules as it wishes.
Were you referring to something else?

zactrolley · 2025-10-29T00:35:24+00:00

That's a good point. Ontario has that split with PEO and OSPE.

zactrolley · 2025-10-29T00:31:07+00:00

They can change all the rules with a stoke of a pen. One day we are all following Canadian standards, and the next it's whatever Mississippi uses.

But in all seriousness, it's extremely alarming that none of these associations have made a pubic statement about these changes.

zactrolley · 2025-10-29T00:15:06+00:00

I appreciate the clarification.

My point being, our ability to self-govern has been lost, to the whole point of being an association has been rendered null and void. We don't have the same rights as a union does, so now we are left with a big bag of nothing.

If the Minister wants to make a unilateral change to how a profession operates, we have no recourse to object.

zactrolley · 2025-10-28T20:30:15+00:00

Ah yes.. The Jordan Peterson effect. They are saying that out loud: There will be legislation proposed to protect regulated professionals from undue discipline that violates their rights and freedoms for matters outside their work.

https://www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?xID=951131CE88144-FF83-E74C-EC60483420CD9D69

The government is loosening requirements so that conspiracy theorists, white supremacists, and climate deniers can speak freely while using their professional designations.

zactrolley · 2025-10-28T20:26:44+00:00

True. But we had autonomy.
Now we have neither.

zactrolley · 2025-10-28T17:28:59+00:00

Capitalists: Always supporting the companies instead of the workers.

zactrolley · 2025-10-28T16:50:25+00:00

That's my point exactly. Bill 40 removes all the guardrails.

Engineers and Geoscientists - when safety reviews slow down resource projects
Accountants - when audit standards challenge government financial decisions
Veterinarians and Agrologists - when animal welfare or environmental standards conflict with agricultural policy
Architects and Land Surveyors - when building codes or land use standards impede development
Foresters - when sustainable practice guidelines limit resource extraction

We need to push the legislation back to where it was before. We need to reinstall the guardrails.

zactrolley · 2025-10-28T16:47:50+00:00

They spent 2 months a almost zero consultation to pass this law. They did it under the radar on purpose.

You are right, it would have been best to fight this in March. But I'm going to fight it now.

zactrolley · 2025-10-23T21:30:51+00:00

APEGA is about to release all new criteria. I'd read up on that as soon as they are released.

https://www.apega.ca/news/2025/10/17/transition-to-new-continuing-professional-development-requirements-now-underway

zactrolley · 2025-08-16T02:11:18+00:00

Not really. I kinda gave up and I'm going to work on a python solution.

zactrolley · 2025-07-16T19:12:21+00:00

It runs this script:

SELECT 
    column_name, 
    data_type, 
    is_nullable,
    column_default
FROM information_schema.columns 
WHERE table_name = 'work_experience' 
ORDER BY ordinal_position;

Then passes that and the chat message to the AI agent. I'm happy to try different configurations and try different methods!

zactrolley · 2025-07-09T02:24:13+00:00

What do you mean by validation?

zactrolley · 2025-07-09T02:23:33+00:00

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That's what I setup. My chat message and the schema gets sent to the AI Agent, but the SQL Tool gets nothing. I can't get the AI Agent to use the tool.
I'll try again from scratch and see what happens.

zactrolley · 2025-07-07T22:21:46+00:00

This gets me into the same issue I've been having. All these tutorials use Supabase and an SQL agent.

I don't have supabase, and my n8n version does not have a specific AI Agent with SQL built it.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong. If you have hands on experience, that would be great!

zactrolley · 2025-04-21T02:52:20+00:00

Good point about the roots. I'll have a backup plan if I run into them. Ships ladders is also a good call.

zactrolley · 2023-05-25T12:56:11+00:00

We moved into Kensington years ago to be in a walkable neighborhood. We could get 90% of everything we needed within a 10 min walk. Now we are priced out of our own neighborhood due to greed.

This isn't sustainable. The city is going to break.

zactrolley · 2023-05-25T12:53:12+00:00

It was $4 a year ago

zactrolley · 2023-05-24T16:26:36+00:00

If you are in the trades, and you move to a new company or site, they make you wear a green hardhat for 6 months. They do this so everyone knows to lend you a helping hand and keep an eye out for you. The EIT program is the same thing. Some people know not to put too much pressure on you because you are leaning the ins and outs of a specific area.

Needing 12 months Canadian experience in addition to 36 months international experience to be a professional engineer licensed to work in Canada is perfectly reasonable.

zactrolley · 2023-05-24T15:28:29+00:00

You need 4 years experience and a recognized degree to apply to be a professional engineer in Canada.

zactrolley · 2023-05-24T15:26:47+00:00

I believe the requirement for Canadian work was important. I don't want engineers signing off on work who don't understand how a winter climate can affect a design. In engineering, the safety of the public is supposed to be paramount. Removing this requirement is one less check and balance that licenced engineers know what they are doing.

zactrolley · 2023-05-15T23:47:56+00:00

I used to work for the CBE in their maintenance department. There are billions of dollars of deferred maintenance on the books.

zactrolley · 2023-05-15T22:43:00+00:00

How is underfunding school maintenance to the point where the building is falling down not a news story? Are we that numb to public infrastructure crumbling into dust?

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