{"id":44506,"date":"2015-03-11T00:49:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T16:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=44506"},"modified":"2015-03-11T00:49:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T16:49:31","slug":"wynne-says-new-ontario-birth-certificates-will-be-more-durable-more-secure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/11\/wynne-says-new-ontario-birth-certificates-will-be-more-durable-more-secure\/","title":{"rendered":"Wynne says new Ontario birth certificates will be more durable, more secure"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15066\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15066\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Kathleen-Wynne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15066\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Kathleen-Wynne.jpg\" alt=\"Kathleen Wynne (Facebook photo)\" width=\"535\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Kathleen-Wynne.jpg 535w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Kathleen-Wynne-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathleen Wynne (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO &#8212; The province is introducing new birth certificates made with a polymer material and security features that officials say will make them more durable and harder to counterfeit.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Kathleen Wynne unveiled the new Ontario birth certificates today at a Toronto hospital, pointing out that the polymer is the same material used to make Canadian bank notes.<\/p>\n<p>Wynne says the birth certificate is one of the most important documents people have, since it is used to obtain other ID, such as passports and driver&#8217;s licences.<\/p>\n<p>She says making them more secure will help prevent identity theft and fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The polymer birth certificates have a variety of embedded security features, including raised print, transparent windows and colour-shifting images.<\/p>\n<p>They are also more durable and easier to clean than the current paper certificates and should last for a person&#8217;s lifetime with normal use.<\/p>\n<p>The new polymer birth certificates will be available starting April 15.<\/p>\n<p>The province says current birth certificates are still valid and do not need to be replaced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; The province is introducing new birth certificates made with a polymer material and security features that officials say &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}