Should Canada issue a national ID card?

[Yo0]

Many states around the world issue a national ID card to allow for one common efficiently standardized ID and database. If Canada were to do so, I could see two possible solutions:

1. Establish a new national ID card, or

2. Make the Canadian passport a compulsory ID for all that would double as our national ID card.

I'd personally prefer the latter option just to remove redundancy. Only one problem with the latter option would be that permanent residents could not get it, so they'd need to use their permanent resident card and foreign nationals could just use their national passports when in Canada.

Either option would allow police, CRA, and other agencies to rely on a common standardized ID and database for their work (or at least more so than is now the case) which could save the taxpayer much money in crime prevention and investigation and identification, voter ID, maybe even provincial health ID and a wide range of other purposes.

This could were super great!

 

[Walter]

This could were super great!

Troll.

 

[JamesBondo]

CRC? You can live in any province or even abroad, be of any age, and not know how to drive, even be blind as a bat and deaf, and as long as you're a Canadian citizen, you can get a passport as far as I know.

Sorry, PRC, permanent residence card. True. That would be one advantage of a national ID card. It could be issued to any permanent or even temporary resident. I could see both options having their respective pros and cons. A national ID card would mean yet an additional piece of ID if you already have a driving license, health card, passport, etc. But yes, it would still have an advantage for the purpose of standardization.

With a passport, you could still establish a certain degree of standardization. For example, PRC, passport, and maybe a visa stamped into a foreign passport could all connect to the same national database.

Along with a refugee travel document.



Really? So you don't need to show a driving license to drive, a hunting license to hunt, a marriage license to marry, a passport to board most flights, a health card to get free medicare, some form of ID to vote, etc.?

PRC - Police Records Check.

 

[White_Unifier]

A Canadian citizen can get a passport as long as there is no outstanding warrant for his arrest.

 

[petros]

Resident. Canadian Resident.

 

[darkbeaver]

I don,t need an ID card I have numerous tax reciepts, fuk you shjthead I am Canadian.

I,m not paying for another fukkin card unless it comes with a free spanish leather wallet to keep it in.

A Canadian citizen can get a passport as long as there is no outstanding warrant for his arrest.

I was already arrested, twice, I still got a passport, they want me to leave the country.

What if it,sd a secret outstanding warrent that you are unaware of before customs discusses it with you, in Maine?

 

[White_Unifier]

Resident. Canadian Resident.

I don't believe that a permanent resident can get a standard Canadian passport except maybe under very special circumstances.

 

[darkbeaver]

Canada should issue a national identity card of course. I would certainly like to see the preferred Canadian identity spelled out by the supposedly Canadian government. Jus what does Ottawa believe is a Canadian citizen? This should be interesting especially to a fully paid up Canadian. You better have some ideas Canada.Gov

Biometrics or your wasteing our dime.

We got us in the blink of that eye.haghahahahahahahahahahahcough

an arm comes outta the wall and scratches a blood cell and yer incarnation time and arrival weight brain size sex colour engendered perversions are all revealed, you may still be issued rations.

Have they ever failed to find you if you owe, we can,t hide from the pricks as it is. So I thought I was abundantly Canadian and obviously so but times have changed.



I don,t need a national identiry card because you can,t tell I,m Canadian shjt head. I need to replace you with a fukkin Canadian.

 

[Yo0]

Canada should issue a national identity card of course. I would certainly like to see the preferred Canadian identity spelled out by the supposedly Canadian government. Jus what does Ottawa believe is a Canadian citizen? This should be interesting especially to a fully paid up Canadian. You better have some ideas Canada.Gov

Biometrics or your wasteing our dime.

We got us in the blink of that eye.haghahahahahahahahahahahcough

an arm comes outta the wall and scratches a blood cell and yer incarnation time and arrival weight brain size sex colour engendered perversions are all revealed, you may still be issued rations.

Have they ever failed to find you if you owe, we can,t hide from the pricks as it is. So I thought I was abundantly Canadian and obviously so but times have changed.

Canada is big country in West but is smaller in populate like Australia big country but it is smaller populate than country miles.

:smile::smile::smile::smile:

 

[darkbeaver]

The question is an absurd I have tax reciepts and my lawyer assures me every year that my citizenship has never been questioned nor is it ever likly to be as long as I continue to pay the taxes/protection payments.You fall behind you die in the gutter, yea I,m Canadian, and still mercilessly alive and throwing up huge sums of money to enable those assholes to ask me such a a question.

I,ve lived in Nova Scotia for 64.78345 years. Only a Canadian would do that.

 

[Danbones]

I citiz in da ship (captain's chair), and I drive in da ship, and I dock in da ship.

Now WTF is da hooker corner and the nearest beer store?

While I have a bank card that says who I am, I left that at home...

...because I have some credit cards that don't.