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Authority, provenance, and monitoring

Official sources and conflicts

See which sources establish rules, how Maple monitors them, and where conflicting official guidance prevents a confident comparison.

Versioned source manifest

Official source library

Official does not mean every page has the same authority. Legislation, ministry program pages, operational updates, checklists, announcements, and datasets each establish different things.

How Maple applies source authority
Legislation
May establish: Statutory Eligibility. Must not establish: A delegated score, deadline, or process that the legislation leaves to the director or Ministry.
Ministry Program Page
May establish: Delegated Points, Delegated Process, Operational Status. Must not establish: A statutory eligibility rule that conflicts with legislation.
Program Update
May establish: Operational Status, Transition. Must not establish: Eligibility or evidence requirements outside the update’s stated operational scope.
Document Checklist
May establish: Evidence. Must not establish: Eligibility, points, or portal status.
Government Announcement
May establish: Government Context. Must not establish: Eligibility, points, evidence, or an operational deadline.
Federal Methodology
May establish: Wage Methodology. Must not establish: Ontario eligibility or OINP scoring.
Official Dataset
May establish: Wage Data. Must not establish: Ontario eligibility or an unsupported annual-to-hourly conversion.
Classification Standard
May establish: Noc Reference. Must not establish: Ontario eligibility or OINP scoring beyond the published NOC dimensions.

Official source

Ontario Workforce Priority stream (opens in a new tab)Français (ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)
Current

The page is authoritative for delegated scoring and Ministry process, but contradictions with legislation enter review.

Authority
Ministry Program Page
Exact section
Applicant requirements; Employer requirements; Self-employed physician; Scoring factors; 6. Legal status in Canada (if applicable); Maintained status; Legal status in Canada; 2. Work experience (or mandatory licence or other authorization); Job offer under TEER category 0, 1, 2 or 3; 6 months of consecutive work experience in the job offer employment position within the last year; 3 months of consecutive work experience in the job offer within the last year for a recent Ontario graduate; 2 years of cumulative work experience in the job offer NOC within the past 5 years; Full-time work experience; Part-time work experience; Transport truck drivers and Bus drivers, subway operators and other transit operators; Job offer for a TEER category 4 or 5 employment position; Notes on calculating work experience; Ontario work experience

Official source

2026 Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program updates (opens in a new tab)Français (ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)
Current

The June 26 entry uses inconsistent timing language: its opening says the changes took effect June 25, while a later section says they came into effect “today.” Maple records the discrepancy and uses June 25 only because O. Reg. 204/26, s. 11 establishes that commencement date under legislative authority.

Authority
Program Update
Exact section
July 20, 2026; Web pages updated for new Ontario Workforce Priority Stream; June 26, 2026; Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program Redesign Phase 1; Candidates who have registered an Expression of Interest (EOI) or submitted an application; Closed streams; Effective date for the regulatory changes; Future updates

Official source

Ontario Regulation 422/17 — General (opens in a new tab)Français (ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)
Current

The current consolidated e-Laws version reports a currency date of June 25, 2026.

Authority
Legislation
Exact section
Definitions; Eligibility requirements, all categories; Approval of an employment position; Ontario workforce priority: TEER 0-3 category; Ontario workforce priority: TEER 4-5 category; Ontario workforce priority: self-employed physician category; Language testing

Official source

Ontario Workforce Priority Stream — applicant checklist (opens in a new tab)Français (ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)
Current

Official source in Maple’s versioned OINP source manifest.

Authority
Document Checklist
Exact section
Summary; Applicant Consent Form; Identity documents; Status documents in Canada; Education documents; Language test results; Licensing or authorization documents; Job offer; Pay slips; Work history documents; 3. Proof of compensation; 4. Canada Revenue Agency Statements; Expression of interest scoring factors documents; Intention to live and work in Ontario documents; Self-employed physicians; Resumé

Current monitoring state

Official source health

Live open source conflicts

What Maple refuses to resolve automatically

The self-employed physician scoring bands overlap at exactly 24 months

Open conflict

The Ministry table describes the 18-point band as “Over 24 months (2 years or more)” while the 15-point band includes “13 months up to 24 months.” Exactly 24 months is therefore described by the parenthetical in one band and the numeric boundary in another. Maple does not assign points at that boundary.

Latest monitored record: The current ministry scoring bands still overlap at exactly 24 months for self-employed physicians. Maple does not assign points at that boundary.

Affected rule:
physician_24_months_points
Detected:
Calculation state:
Dependent output is suppressed and reported as official guidance unclear.
Suppressed:
points
Official references (1)

Maintained status: the applying rule is clear, but permit points are not

Open conflict

Ontario says maintained status can be accepted when applying from inside Canada. Its EOI table separately awards 10 points for a valid work permit, 5 points for a valid study permit, and 0 points for neither, but it does not say which row applies to maintained status. Maple therefore leaves this points factor unresolved instead of guessing.

Latest monitored record: Official material does not clearly state whether maintained work or study status receives the corresponding permit points. Legal-status eligibility remains separate.

Affected rule:
permit_status_points_maintained
Detected:
Calculation state:
Dependent output is suppressed and reported as official guidance unclear.
Suppressed:
points
Official references (2)

The new six-month route threshold has no published effective date

Open conflict

The current Ministry page publishes 780 paid hours for the six-month same-position route, replacing 390 hours in Maple’s previously reviewed source body, but the official page does not publish when that change took effect. Maple withholds the six-month and transport-route result instead of backdating the new value.

Latest monitored record: The current Ministry page publishes 780 paid hours for the six-month same-position route, but it does not publish when that replacement value took effect. Maple withholds the six-month and transport-route result rather than backdating it.

Affected rule:
work_experience_six_months_same_position
Detected:
Calculation state:
Dependent output is suppressed and reported as official guidance unclear.
Suppressed:
criteria
Official references (2)
Resolved conflict history (1)

Work-experience thresholds and the full-time position definition are separate rules

Resolved model issue

The Ministry page publishes route-specific accumulated work-experience thresholds. O. Reg. 422/17 separately defines a full-time employment position as at least 1,560 paid hours in a 12-month period and at least 30 paid hours per week. Maple no longer compares these different concepts as competing values.

The original record is retained for history. Route-specific accumulated experience and the statutory full-time position definition are evaluated independently.

Official references (3)