MEMBERSHIP:

ON - P. Harbottle (Chair)
AB - M. Fuhr
BC - J. Kroeker-Hall
MB - B. Rapinchuk
NB - S. McCracken
QC - H. Blaney
SK - K. Quaye
CCMTA - I. Tomlinson

RECORD OF DECISIONS REFERENCE:

Standing Committee on Drivers and Vehicles, May/08, Oct/08
CCMTA Board of Directors, May/08, Dec/08

REPORTING TO:

Standing Committee on Drivers and Vehicles

BACKGROUND:

It is particularly important that D&V administrators be able to trust that they can identify and authenticate the citizens and businesses requesting their services. Because the information age has dramatically changed the ways and the situations in which individuals are identified and authenticated, electronic service delivery requires some rethinking of traditional approaches to identity management and authentication.

Within Canada, different agencies are taking different approaches to IdM and there is little apparent common ground on the subject. For example, there is no agreement across jurisdictions on: what “identity” means; what identification information should be collected; what documents should be accepted for identification; and what verification processes should be used. There are also no universally accepted standards in Canada for issuing documents to prove identity and CCMTA has a role to play.

Because of the inconsistent ways identity information is collected and verified by jurisdictions, it is difficult to share it. Other problems include: using names as a primary way to identify clients because of their different variants (e.g., legal name Jones, Betty versus Mary Elizabeth Jones) and the limited linkages both within and across agencies for the sharing and verification of identity information. These problems increase the possibility of identity fraud enabling a suspended driver to keep driving.

MANDATE:

1. To monitor standards development regarding identification clients pertaining to multiple technologies and emerging technologies;

2. To act as a liaison role for CCMTA on items relating to Identification Management and Security with external agencies such as the service delivery community, law enforcement, AAMVA and the private sector;

3. To address security relating to Canada (CBSA) - U.S. (DHS, WHTI), issues as they relate Real ID, CDLA, EDL’s; and

4. To manage FDRT issues as necessary:

4.1 To incorporate suggested improvements in Canadian content to the FDRT course;

4.2 To ensure FDRT materials remain current and in conjunction with AAMVA, that a FDRT Course and materials maintenance process is developed to ensure that all jurisdictions have the most current information;

4.3 To explore FDR training with CBSA as an alternate to AAVMA; and

4.4 To develop FDRT for vehicle issues, as previously approved by the Board under the Anti Auto-Theft Project Group, using the AAMVA VDEC.

DEADLINES:

Mandate items:

1. - 3. Ongoing

4.1 - 4.3 Ongoing

4.4 In abeyance (awaiting updated AAMVA document)

STATUS:

Ongoing

January 2009