Ambiguous Service Dog in Training Law
I live in Alberta, Canada
In Alberta & BC, service dogs need to go through a test to grant them an ID card.
Before this, the law also protects a “certified dog trainer” with a service dog in training to be granted the same public access rights as a certified team. Or so I thought.
I hold both CCPDT & PPG dog training certifications, and work part-time as a pet dog trainer, part-time as a service dog class instructor.
My personal dog (unaffiliated with the service dog company) is already tasked trained, and the past few months we’ve been working heavily on public access. One thing for us is I ride the train to work, so for about 3 months he’s been coming with me on the train and continuing to get better. Once, we were approached by a police officer. Without the written code in front of me, I showcased. My certification and explained the training laws. He okayed us and we moved on.
Today, I was approached by transit peace officers waiting for the next train. They told me with no ID card I had to leave. I explained the situation, met again with the same response and super lovely “you don’t get to tell me about the “law””
I showcase my certifications, and they stated it “needed to be an Alberta certification” and the other officer piping in “how are we supposed to know this is real”
They didn’t allow me to pull out the code, basically acting like none of this was real.
I’d love to file a complaint but I was so anxious I wasn’t thinking clearly and didn’t think to ask for the officers information etc.
Here’s the code: it’s SUPER ambiguous, what are your takes on it?