Guides.
Short, and sourced.
Plain guides for your licence application in Canada, each with its sources.
- Start hereWhat are the 34 competencies?Most Canadian engineering regulators assess experience against 34 competencies in seven groups. Each one in a plain line, with the guide it comes from.
- WritingCompetency examples: what good looks likeWhat a good competency example looks like for a Canadian licence application: one situation, your own actions and decisions, the result, and what it shows.
- WritingHow to write competency examplesHow to write each competency example in your own words: pick the situation, set the scene, say what you did and decided, the outcome, and check every fact.
- LoggingKeeping an experience logWhy to keep an engineering experience log while you work, what to write in each entry, how often, and how it turns into competency examples when you apply.
- RulesCBA character limits by provinceThe character limits for each part of a competency example, province by province, from each regulator's own guide, and where none is published.
- RulesPEO's experience requirement from July 2026What PEO's change to 24 months of experience means: who it applies to, when you can submit your CBA, and what it doesn't change.
- RulesAPEGA's Canadian environment competenciesAPEGA's eight Canadian environment competencies and their minimum scores, which replaced the year of Canadian experience in July 2026.
- ValidatorsWho can validate your CBAWho can be a validator for your competency-based assessment: what APEGA's guide says about direct knowledge, supervision, family and how many.
- ValidatorsWhy a CBA gets sent backWhat holds a competency-based assessment up, in APEGA's own words: thin examples, revisions, validators, Canadian minimums and length.