We don’t have any Canadian’s on the staff here at PlanAHeist, but I hear that not only is Quebec going to issuing RFID enabled driver’s licenses, but that they will be required for entrance into the USA starting June 1, 2009.
These enhanced driver’s licenses cost $40CAD, if you wait for your current one to expire, otherwise it costs $51.97CAD. Quite spendy considering I only paid $20USA for mine (albeit non-RFID).
Putting aside the security issues of RFID in general, they claim they are going to only include a code that a US Border agent can read. This code is then required for a lookup of your file in a database that is managed by the Canada Border Services Agency.
One concern, if that the database is in the US, then under the US Patriot Act, the data could be used freely to build files on people.
