Did you ever get this figured out? It is not working for me as well.

Just for reference, here is what I am doing that does not work. Mind you, the policy works in the controller so I know that I have the policy set up correctly:

MessagePolicy:

public function create($user)
{
    return $user->UGID >= 1;
}

MessageController:

    public function getCreate()
{
    $this->authorize('create', Message::class);

    return view('messages.create');
}

create.blade.php:

@can('create', Message::class)
    <div>Create Message</div>
@else
    <div>Cannot Create Message</div>
@endcan

Whenever I visit the create page, I always get the cannot create message no matter what UGID I have. It's not even hitting the policy to check. But the controller check does work.

Oh, sorry. I have not been accessing laravel.io for while. I gotta do what you are saying and "Mark it as Solution" after that.

Thank you btw.

Thank you @r0bdiabl0 . This should really be mentioned in the documentation. Laravel 5.4 also has this issue

Yay for PHP namespacing.