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i 8 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, January 25,1984 Section Two FROM ALLAN LAWRENCE, P.C., Q.C., M.P. (Durham-Northumber- land) Now that the holiday season is behind us and we are well into another winter -- a time when some of you are thinking of travel to exotic places -- I felt this might be an appropriate appropriate occasion to say something about a matter that is a little different and completely completely non-political. I'm referring to your Canadian passport. You may wonder why I choose to devote an 'Ottawa Report' to such a seemingly prosaic topic. Well, you'd be surprised to know how frequently my staff and I are contacted by people almost in a panic about their difficulties, difficulties, or even their inability to get a passport passport when they desperately desperately need one. In most cases that can be avoided avoided with just a little advance thought and preparation. So, if you're planning a trip south this winter or a vacation next summer summer in another country where a passport is required, required, I'd strongly suggest that you check right now to make sure that you have a passport, passport, and that it still will be valid for the time of your trip. Particularly -- and I can't emphasize this enough -- do not make any definite travel or accommodation reservations, reservations, and certainly don't lay out any money for your trip, until you do have a valid passport passport in hand. Nothing could be worse than having to cancel a trip and possibly losing your deposit, all because because your passport didn't arrive when you needed it. Actually, obtaining a passport is quite simple simple for most Canadian citizens. Occasionally there can be problems, and they always seem to arise when you need that passport in a hurry. You should remember remember that passports are no longer renewable. renewable. They are good for five full years. After that, though you still have your old passport, if you want to travel overseas you have to go through the complete process of applying for a new one. The first stage in getting getting a passport is to obtain obtain an application form, which is available available at any Post Office. Fill out the form as instructed instructed -- it's not difficult difficult -- and make sure you have everything that is required -- including including your birth certificate, certificate, or your proof of citizenship if you weren't born in Canada, Canada, your photos, which must be certified along with the application by a qualified professional professional person, and $21 for the cost of the passport. passport. When your application application is completed, you can get your passport in either of two ways: The first way, which is by far the fastest and surest, and which I would recommend to any of you having regu- THE MARCH IS ON! Many physically disabled men and women need your help. Please give generously. ABILITY FUND lar access to Toronto, is to take your application to either of the two over-the-counter passport passport offices serving the Toronto area. One of these offices is right downtown, on the 10th floor of the Royal Trust Tower, one of the buildings buildings in the Toronto- Dominion Centre, near Bay and King Streets. The other over-the- counter office is in North York, on the ground floor of the Government Government of Canada Building at 4900 Yonge Street. That is one block north of Sheppard Sheppard Avenue, and just a short distance north of the Highway 401 interchange interchange for Yonge Street. Each of these Toronto offices is open weekdays weekdays only, from 8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. They will have your passport ready in three working days. But please remember remember that these offices offices only provide over- the-counter service. You must take in your application and pick up your passport when it is ready. They can't accept accept mailed applications. applications. You can pay them the $21 fee with cash, a money order, or with your certified personal cheque. The other way to apply for your passport is by mail, and should only be used when you won't need the passport within a couple of months or so. You simply simply mail the completed application, the required required certified photos and documents and your certified cheque or money order -- but no cash -- to the passport passport office address given on the application application form. With ' our postal service as it is, I'd recommend that you send the application by registered mail, and allow at least six weeks for delivery. With this arrangement, your passport will be mailed to you at your home address. address. Of course, we all know that emergencies do happen, such as serious serious illness or a death in the family, which require require urgent travel. In such cases of genuine emergency, the office in the Toronto-Domin- ion Centre can provide you with a passport in a matter of hours. You still will have to make out a proper application; application; and they will want some proof of the emergency, such as a letter or telegram, and will want to see your valid airline ticket. I'd like to stress that, whichever way you apply for your passport, if you encounter serious serious problejns or some undue delay, call my constituency office and we'll do all we can to assist assist you. You can telephone telephone the constituency office without long distance distance charges from anywhere anywhere in Durham- Northumberland. The number is listed under my name, Allan Lawrence, Lawrence, M.P., in your own local telephone directory. directory. As I said, getting a passport usually is a simple matter for most Canadians. But the worst problems seem to crop up when you're trying to get that passport passport in a desperate rush. 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