Your message was most interesting for in fact, this is what the Canadian regulations require. Flying commercially in Canada with a Foreign licence and an FLVC is not allowed for revenue flight under Part VII (any commercial flying).
Whomever required that you acquire a Canadian licence that year to fly in Canada was most correct. For reasons, and under circumstances that are still a mystery to me, that Regulation and it's associated Standard are not being enforced by Transport Canada Civil Aviation.
All will be fine, until the day a major incident occurs during a revenue airline flight with a pilot fielding an FLVC instead of a Canadian ATPL, and then questions will be asked; insurance companies will question the legitimacy of the pilot and the lawyers will have a field day......
Ref: CAR 705.106 and the Standard 725.106(6)
Last edited by Gilles Hudicourt; 11th Jan 2014 at 18:55.