AUGUST 2026
RE: THE CANADIAN CREDENTIAL TRUST AUTHORITY, AND AN INVITATION TO HELP WRITE ITS RULES
Dear Megan,
On January 1, 2024, British Columbia became the first jurisdiction in Canada to require licensing for asbestos abatement contractors and certification for every worker who performs the work. WorkSafeBC did not just write a rule. It built a program: four certificate levels, a practical assessment, exams in five languages, certificates issued under WorkSafeBC’s own authority, and a public registry of licensed contractors. It is nation-leading credentialing work, and it is why we wanted to bring this conversation to you early.
Every credentialing body in Canada now faces the same three problems, and they grow with a program’s success. Credential fraud: counterfeit certificates circulate today, and a paper card or a PDF cannot defend itself. Identity fraud: confirming a certificate is real is table stakes; confirming that the person presenting it is the person who earned it is the harder and more dangerous gap. And interoperability: proof earned with one issuer, in one province, too often has to be re-proven in the next, exactly the friction Canada has committed to removing.
No single issuer can solve those problems alone, because trust is a network property.
That is why a group of respected credentialing authorities is convening now to shape the Canadian Credential Trust Authority, an independent not-for-profit that will own the open standards — including the W3C Verifiable Credentials protocol — enforce the protocol, and govern how verifiable digital credentials are issued and trusted across Canada. The Authority is governed by its members: the issuers themselves. The Oliu™ network provides the rails underneath, the wallet, the issuer tooling, the verification infrastructure, as a replaceable operator under contract to the Authority, never its owner.
This is the purpose of my visit: to walk you through the Authority, its governance, and what founding participation looks like. Joining early means helping write the rules, not inheriting them, and B.C.’s credentialing programs have earned that seat.
The rest of this briefing is a leave-behind. We are We Know Training Inc., an Edmonton company with four decades in regulated training and certification. You already know part of us: Responsible Service BC, the province’s mandatory serving-and-selling certification, runs on Rapid LMS, our training management platform: the regulator’s standard, the regulator’s brand, our infrastructure underneath. The pages that follow describe the Authority and the Oliu network, the platform and services behind our work, and the company beneath it all.
We ask for nothing today except your attention and the conversation. We wanted you to see it first.
Where this work meets B.C.’s mandate.
Drawn from the Premier’s mandate letter to the Minister of Labour (January 2025), which directs the Ministry to work with WorkSafeBC on prevention, compliance, and enforcement. We have kept this deliberately high level.
A pan-Canadian trust network for verifiable digital credentials, governed by an independent Authority the issuers themselves control. The founding conversation is happening now.
Training management built for regulated industries, delivery, secure exams, compliance records, verifiable credentials, plus full managed program delivery, already running mandatory programs in B.C.
We Know Training Inc.: six brands, four decades, and one platform underneath. How it all fits together.
Chris LaBossiere · CEO, We Know Training Inc. · [EMAIL] · [PHONE]