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  "publisher": {
    "name": "DriversAbstract",
    "legalName": "Q-Flow",
    "url": "https://driversabstract.ca",
    "isGovernmentAgency": false,
    "affiliatedWithGovernment": false,
    "disclosure": "DriversAbstract is a private company. It is not a government agency and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of any government agency. Every document listed can be obtained directly from the issuing agency for the agency's own fee."
  },
  "generatedFrom": "catalog/**/jurisdictions/*.yaml",
  "jurisdictions": [
    {
      "category": "drivers-abstract",
      "code": "ca-on",
      "name": "Ontario",
      "country": "CA",
      "governmentFee": {
        "amount": 12,
        "currency": "CAD",
        "per": "document",
        "note": "Single agency step."
      },
      "chain": [
        {
          "step": 1,
          "agency": "ServiceOntario (Ministry of Transportation)",
          "applyDirectlyUrl": "https://www.ontario.ca/page/get-driving-record",
          "fee": 12,
          "per": "document",
          "verifiedOn": "2026-09-04",
          "source": "https://www.ontario.ca/page/get-driving-record"
        }
      ],
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        "name": "Three-year driver record (uncertified, without address)",
        "issuingAuthority": "Ministry of Transportation of Ontario",
        "certified": false,
        "includes": [
          "Driver identification details",
          "Demerit point total",
          "Active fine suspensions",
          "Highway Traffic Act convictions from the past 3 years",
          "Criminal Code of Canada convictions from the past 3 years",
          "Suspensions and reinstatements from the past 3 years"
        ],
        "excludes": [
          "The driver's address",
          "Ontario beginner driver education course completion",
          "Expired medical suspensions"
        ],
        "requesterRule": "Anyone can order a 3-year driver record if they provide a driver's licence number.",
        "format": "email_pdf",
        "deliveredBy": "agency_direct",
        "deliveredTo": "email",
        "source": "https://www.ontario.ca/page/get-driving-record",
        "verifiedOn": "2026-09-04"
      },
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        {
          "name": "Three-year driver record, certified (with the ministry's seal)",
          "fee": 18,
          "channel": "mail",
          "turnaroundDays": [
            15,
            15
          ],
          "reason": "It is the same information with a ministry seal on it, and the seal is the reason it cannot be instant: ontario.ca states a certified order \"will be processed within 15 business days and then sent by regular mail via Canada Post\". Selling a 15-business- day postal product alongside an instant emailed one under a single price and a single turnaround would misstate both. If a court has asked for a certified copy, order it from the ministry directly.",
          "source": "https://www.ontario.ca/page/get-driving-record",
          "verifiedOn": "2026-09-04"
        },
        {
          "name": "Five-year driver record",
          "fee": 12,
          "channel": "online",
          "turnaroundDays": [
            0,
            0
          ],
          "reason": "The ministry sells it online at the same $12 as the three-year record. We do not offer it yet, and the honest reason is that the requester rule has only been confirmed in the ministry's own words for the THREE-year record - \"Anyone can order a 3-year driver record if they provide a driver's licence number.\" No equivalent sentence has been found for the five-year one, and the whole model rests on that sentence, so it is not sold until the same evidence exists.",
          "source": "https://www.ontario.ca/page/get-longer-term-driving-records-or-letters-and-documents",
          "verifiedOn": "2026-09-04"
        },
        {
          "name": "Driver's licence history",
          "fee": 12,
          "channel": "online",
          "turnaroundDays": [
            0,
            0
          ],
          "reason": "Restricted by the ministry, not by us: a driver's licence history \"can only be ordered by the driver themselves or by a Canadian law enforcement agency\". We are neither, so there is no version of this we may sell at any price.",
          "source": "https://www.ontario.ca/page/get-driving-record",
          "verifiedOn": "2026-09-04"
        }
      ],
      "processing": {
        "byMailDays": [
          15,
          15
        ],
        "inPersonDays": null,
        "inPersonLocation": null,
        "ourEstimateDays": [
          0,
          1
        ]
      },
      "ourPrice": {
        "amount": 40,
        "currency": "CAD",
        "includes": [
          "Preparation, checking and submission",
          "ServiceOntario (Ministry of Transportation) fee"
        ]
      },
      "canApplyYourself": true
    }
  ]
}