Mediman14 said:
Today, the Minister of National Defence introduced a new initiative on helping Military Families. One of the issues used in the article was driver's licence. I may be missing something but getting a driver's license is not very hard to get!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/military-harjit-sajjan-defence-minister-1.4749658
It’s fairly simple, but there are glitches.
My son, for example. He’s now an OCdt in St Jean. We’re OUTCAN. His DL is our Belleville address right now. Before I dropped him in St Jean a few weeks ago, we went to Service Ontario to change the address on his DL to RMC. They would not change it because he doesn’t live there until 25 Aug. He doesn’t live with us, his passport has been stamped on exit, he’s off my husband’s PeopleSoft file as a dependent.
The law says he has to change his address between “1 day before and 6 days after” moving. So he’s already outside the law because he didn’t change it when he moved out of our house. He’s going to have 4 weeks of first year orientation when he gets to RMC, likely not allowed off the campus during that time. He can do it online, but only if they haven’t cancelled his OHIP card by that point, the system won’t let you change a DL without an OHIP card because “everyone” in ON has an OHIP card of course! And only if he has access to a computer. Or maybe he can do it on his phone.
Does he change it to QC for 5 weeks? (Hahaha, like CFLRS would give time off to do that! But ON would probably say he should. He’s actually posted there, not on TD). Leave it as our address (he doesn’t live there any more than he lives at RMC)? The ON government won’t let him change it to RMC yet, but they didn’t seem to care that he doesn’t actually live at the address on the license anymore. If we had simultaneously been posted it would be even more awkward.
He’s essentially homeless until 25 Aug, I guess? As I’m sure many CAF members on BTL are. Migrating from base to base until they reach OFP and get their first posting. I’m sure most just keep their parents’ address but that’s not the solution for everyone. At least in our case, it was ON when we went OUTCAN, and he’s going back to ON. And he’ll have RMC for 4 years.
Then there is the whole OUTCAN thing. We have to maintain a provincial driver’s license to have our CAF European license. But try to get that sorted with MTO. And again, our address is Belleville, so not so bad. I believe that a lot of members who went OUTCAN from other provinces have been using a friend or relatives address to keep their provincial license while OUTCAN. Not legal, but it’s the workaround.
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