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The Canadian passport is the passport available to citizens of Canada. It enables the bearer to exit and re-enter Canada; travel to and from other countries in accordance with visa requirements; facilitates the process of securing assistance from Canadian consular officials abroad, if necessary; and requests protection for the bearer while abroad. All Canadian passports are issued by Passport Canada, an independent government agency under the purview of the Department of Citizenship and Immigration. They are normally valid for five or ten years, except those of children under age three which are valid for three years. As of July 2009, 56.2% of Canadians held a valid Canadian passport. Although held by individuals, all Canadian passports remain property of the Queen of Canada (the Government of Canada), as stated on the inside front cover of the booklet.〔http://www.pptc.gc.ca/publications/pdfs/81-86_administrative_2006_eng.pdf〕 Passport Canada has issued electronic passports, or e-passports to Canadian citizens starting from 1 July 2013. ==History== The first Canadian passports were issued in 1862, following the outbreak of the American Civil War, when the United States demanded more secure identification from Canadians wishing to cross the border. They took the form of a ''Letter of Request'' from the governor general. These documents remained in use until, in 1915, Canadian passports were first issued in the British format, a ten section single sheet folder. The modern form of the Canadian passport came about in 1921. At that time, Canadians were British subjects, and Canada shared a common nationality code with the United Kingdom; thus, Canadian passports were issued to those British subjects resident in or connected to Canada. This arrangement ended in 1947, when the Canadian Citizenship Act was granted Royal Assent and the designation of Canadian citizenship was created. As of July the following year, Canadian passports were issued to Canadian citizens only,〔(Passport Canada: History )〕 and by 1985 the first machine-readable passports were distributed, in accordance with International Civil Aviation Organization standards. In the 2008 federal budget, Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance, announced that electronic passports would be introduced by 2011.〔(Budget 2008: Responsible Leadership for Uncertain Times )〕 A pilot project began in 2009, with e-passports being issued to special and diplomatic passport applicants. The e-passport roll-out was pushed back to 1 July 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Canadian passport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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