This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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A 96-year-old resident of Ottawa lost her Ontario health card and is been denied the right to get a new one as she does not have valid photo identification. Elizabeth Stead claims to be stuck in unnecessary litigation.
Allegedly, Stead misplaced her health card at a local clinic two weeks ago. On her request, she was granted a 90-day temporary card but now she is denied a renewal of the original card because she doesn’t have a driver’s license or any other vital documentation to provide her photo ID. Her son Richard Stead claims to have tried every possible way to convince the authorities.
Reportedly, Elizabeth Stead has provided some other documents including marriage license, citizenship papers and expired passport, but the authorities seem reluctant to use them for identification purposes. Richard Stead stated that “no one ever thought through the implications when they were creating it: What to do in a case like my mother’s?”
A representative of the authorities told the press that “she has lots of documents. She has her birth certificate, her marriage certificate, proof that she came to Canada. But none of it’s good enough now unless you have a photo ID… and to get a photo ID, you have to have a photo ID. That’s the paradox.”
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