Posted on 19/07/04
Passports to go high-tech with computer chips
Ottawa -- Canada plans to begin issuing high-tech passports with digitized photographs next year, saying reliable travel documents are crucial to the country's status as a First World nation.The e-Passport, as the revamped book is called, will be distributed on a trial basis to Canadian diplomats some time in the first half of next year, said Dan Kingsbury, a spokesman for the federal Passport Office.
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