{"id":2347,"date":"2007-12-10T11:20:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T16:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/10\/drivers-licence-called-important-first-step\/"},"modified":"2007-12-10T11:20:48","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T16:20:48","slug":"drivers-licence-called-important-first-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/10\/drivers-licence-called-important-first-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver&#8217;s licence called &#8216;important first step&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1169\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new secure driver&#8217;s licence could be important in helping Canadians avoid passport hassles at the border, says the executive director of the Binational Tourism Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>But it will require everyone getting onboard &#8211; not just Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an important first step, but we&#8217;re only halfway there,&#8221; said Arlene White.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Without the (federal government) stepping up to the plate now &#8230; we&#8217;re still going to be behind the eight- ball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new Ontario driver&#8217;s licence, announced Friday by Transportation Minister Jim Bradley, will include security features such as laser-engraved personal information (photos, signature, etc.), a fine line background, 2D barcode, micro and rainbow printing, and a secondary photo.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be a secure portion which can be used in the future to include citizenship information.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The province is working towards enabling Ontarians to use their driver&#8217;s licence as a border-crossing document,&#8221; said Bradley.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: A new secure driver&#8217;s licence could be important in helping Canadians avoid passport hassles at the border, says the executive director of the Binational Tourism Alliance. But it will require everyone getting onboard &#8211; not just Ontario. &#8220;This is an important first step, but we&#8217;re only halfway there,&#8221; said Arlene&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}