Alberta plans to add a marker to provincial driver’s licences to indicate citizenship in what Premier Danielle Smith said was an effort to ease access to services and maintain the integrity of elections.

Smith and Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction Minister Dale Nally made the announcement in Calgary on Monday.

The citizenship marker will be added to all new and renewed drivers licences and ID cards starting in fall 2026, with Smith saying she saw the addition as addressing three problems.

“We’re trying to solve the issue of our some of our social programs requiring citizenship and how to make that easier. We’re solving a problem of an unknown number of health cards that are of an unknown status, because they’re more than them than we have driver’s licenses. And we’re also trying to

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