Photo ID

[Moraff]

What about an Ontario Health Card? Its government issued photo ID.

Ontario Health Cards cannot be accepted for identification purposes (Health
Cards and Numbers Control Act, 1991 section 2.2(1)).

 

[Aardvark154]

You just answered your own question. They need to id people to ensure they are old enough to be served. They do not need to copy down any information or photocopy that id. That's probably where the issue was, but let's allow a lawyer to pipe in.

Exactly.

 

[thompo69]

I copy and pasted from the Smart Serve website which is the mandatory training program provided to all workers in Ontario who serve alcohol.

The Smart Serve website is either poorly worded, or incorrect. Identification must have a photo, his/her date of birth and "must reasonably appear to have been issued by a government." The regulations then prescribe specific pieces of ID that are acceptable (the list you quoted), but this does not exclude other options.

As for the Health Card, no one can require you to produce a health card, nor can they record any information from it. However, if you colunteer it, it can be used as ID at the bar's discretion.

http://www.agco.on.ca/pdf/Non-Forms/3056E.pdf

 

[thompo69]

Ontario Health Cards cannot be accepted for identification purposes (Health
Cards and Numbers Control Act, 1991 section 2.2(1)).

See my other response: they cannot be required, nor can any information be recorded. They can, however, be accepted as proof of age if voluntarily submitted. Also, the Act cite was repealed.