Smith said permanent residents and non-citizens living in Alberta will have no marker displayed on their card.
Yeah because law enforcement wont abuse that.
Albertans will need to provide proof of citizenship or immigration status when applying for or renewing a driver’s licence, according to the province.
Minister of Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction Dale Nally said the federal government was consulted on the change.
“Minister of Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction” sounds kinda maple maga
Driver’s licences incorporating Alberta health-care card information will roll out at the same time, Smith said.
“This will also provide additional security around health-care numbers,” Smith said.
Smith said there are over 530,000 more health-care numbers than there are people living in Alberta.
Yeah if you are having difficulties with health-care numbers and the population that is an issue, but you wanna bet that the 530 000 number is in relation to people who do not have a license? Here in Saskatchewan we get free stickers to put on our health cards when they are up for renewal, I am willing to bet that you will have to renew your license to keep your health card up to date.
Do you need to tell them? I never did. I just assumed there’s some sort of government system to track which citizens are residents in each province, if nothing else to keep people from “double dipping” in two provinces’ healthcare systems.
Then again, BC charges health premiums to seniors, right? So maybe keeping an AB health card is a way seniors might try to dodge that, I guess? (I’m just here on vacation, really!)
It’s your taxes. Basically no one knows where you are until the end of the year, and even that could end up being out of date. Kinda ridiculous, especially as you’re also able to register to vote and have that moved around.
It would make far too much sense to have a better, federal level setup for all of these things with a simple online portal. A driver’s license should work everywhere in the country, as should a healthcard, but for some reason we love having a country that is just a loose collection of smaller countries that are all part of the same club.