LadyTyger

Can anyone tell me if I can travel to Ontario from Alberta without the use of my passport but just my PR card??

I will have to locate it soon if need be...just can't find it at the mo'

TIA

Wannabe

Ummmm... Did you have to use your passport to travel between counties/provinces/states in whatever country you're from?

LadyTyger

Thanks Wannabe

I just found my elusive passport!

From London, Eng and know that I needed both for my travel there in the summer.

Merry Christmas and happy new year to you and yours!!

snowgoose

For future ref: you don't need a passport to travel between provinces - it's all the same country! Happy travels

JAJ

All true, however for travel by airline, photo-ID is required. A PR Card will do nicely for that.

And it's often worth bringing your passport anyway, in case you want to take a side-trip into the US at short notice (or if flight back is disrupted and airline offers you an alternative routing from a nearby US airport).

dakota44

Not according to Quebec. lol

JAJ

What on earth do you mean by that? Quebec is as much a part of Canada as any other province. (if they really wanted to leave Canada they would have done so long ago)

dakota44

OK..lert me rephrase..not according to SOME QUEBECERS. Face up to it, they have been holding separation over Canadas head for decades. The vote for separation, as you recall, maybe, came a hair from passing. And recently the PM declared them a nation within Canada..talk about sucking up. They are the only Province to my knowledge that does not live up to the bilingual policies of Canada, i.e: The Language Police etc. They control their own immigration, independent from Canadian immigration policy. I could go on and on, but I won't. So Yes...I mean that in the minds of many Quebecers, they are not really part of this country.

JAJ

New Brunswick is the only officially bilingual province.

dakota44

Ontario might disagree with you on that. Official or not, since all government services are provided in either language, and in the courts you are entitled to a paid interpretor if you are French. Among other things.. But, as to your post, Manitoba is officially bilingual as well.

Not to mention that the COUNTRY is bilingual.

Biiiiink

Do you have a link? I haven't come across this before.

JAJ

And Quebec does provide many government services in English as well as French. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilingualism_in_Canada

At federal level, yes. But that does not mean that every provincial and municipal government throughout Canada is fully bilingual.

Switzerland is another case where a federal multilingual policy does not mean that every canton is multilingual (most are single language, with a few being bilingual).

iaink

No, its not, not on an official government level like NB is, where every document and government agancy must operate in both languages by law.