Manitoba Public Insurance can refuse to issue you a Manitoba Identification Card. It can also suspend or cancel your card after it’s been issued.
Grounds that can be appealed
MPI may suspend, cancel or refuse to issue an identification card if it has reason to believe, based on your past conduct or on offences you have committed, that you have used your card inappropriately or have used it to commit an offence, or that you are likely to do so.
You may appeal a decision to refuse to issue, suspend, or cancel a card for the above reasons to the Licence Suspension Appeal Board, but you must do so within six months of MPI’s decision. You can contact the Board by phone at 204-945-7350 or by mail at 301 Weston Street, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 3H4.
Grounds that can be reviewed
MPI may also refuse to issue a Manitoba Identification Card if you do not meet all the eligibility criteria established in The Drivers and Vehicles Act. MPI can also suspend or cancel an identification card if it has reason to believe that:
- You are not old enough to hold an identification card.
- Your full legal name is not the name that you gave on your application for the identification card.
- Your birth date or address is not correctly set out in your identification card.
- You are not a resident of Manitoba.
- You are not entitled to be in Canada for the period your identification card is valid.
If MPI refuses to issue or suspends or cancels your identification card for one of these reasons, you can ask MPI to review its decision through the Registrar of Motor Vehicles. MPI must do so and give you a written notice stating the results of its review and reasons for it. You must ask for this review within six months of the date of the decision. The results of the review cannot be appealed.
To request the review, you can contact the Registrar of Motor Vehicles by phone at 204-985-8770 ext. 1901 or fax at 204-954-5397; or by mail at 234 Donald Street, Box 6300, Winnipeg, MB, R3C 4A4.
Offences
It is an offence under The Drivers and Vehicles Act to:
- Make a false or misleading statement in your application.
- Permit another person to use your card.
- Use another person’s card.
- Possess another person’s card without their permission (a parent or legal guardian may retain or hold an identification card for their child).
- Alter a card so as to be misleading or falsify a card.
- Possess or use a falsified card or a card that has been altered so as to be misleading.
- Possess or use a fictitious document purporting to be an identification card.
MPI or a peace officer may seize a Manitoba Identification Card if there are reasonable grounds to believe it has been altered so as to be misleading, has been falsified, is not accurate or valid, is not lawfully in the possession of the person who provided or produced it, or has been provided or produced to mislead MPI or a peace officer or for another fraudulent or unlawful purposes.
For more information about the Manitoba Identification Card, visit an Autopac agent or MPI Service Centre or call us in Winnipeg at 204-985-7000 or outside Winnipeg toll-free at 1-800-665-2410.