By Daniel Otis, CTV News, June 15, 2016
Minister of Public Safety Ralph Goodale has announced that Canada will begin collecting passport data from people leaving the country.
“It’s nothing more or less than what you find on page two of your passport,” Goodale told reporters on Wednesday. “And that is the full name, the nationality, the issuing authority and the gender of the traveller.”
The same information is already collected when people enter Canada. Collecting such data upon departure will put the country in line with allies like the U.S. and the U.K.
