Regulatory Reform

Your B.C. Government is committed to continuing to cut red tape and reduce the burden on business created by unnecessary regulations, saving businesses money and encouraging investment and job growth.

What your B.C. Government is doing for regulatory reform:

Your B.C. Government has removed more than 152,000 needless regulations since 2001, a reduction of over 42 per cent.
If each regulation was represented by a single sheet of paper, it would make a pile 54 feet high.
The Province is committed to maintaining a net-zero increase in regulatory requirements.
Your B.C. Government created the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement, so that doctors, teachers, plumbers and other skilled workers regulated in both B.C. and Alberta can freely practis e their occupations in both places without added regulatory requirements like material exams or training.
TILMA required that B.C. and Alberta review all standards and regulations to recognize or reconcile the differences that restrict or impair trade, investment or labour mobility. B.C. reviewed over 500 statutes and 1,500 regulations containing 200,000 measures.
Under TILMA, B.C. and Alberta have also streamlined business registration and reporting requirements so that businesses registering in one province will automatically be recognized by the other.
The Province brought in the Health Professions Regulatory Reform Act to enable qualified physicians working in other provinces and countries to practis e here with a restricted licenc e in their specific areas of qualification.

For more information:
Regulatory Reform

Five Great Goals

Regulatory Reform