The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Vancouver has reached a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Yukon’s Department of Highways and Public Works to mutually recognize each other’s driver's licences on October 18, 2024. The agreement took effect immediately upon being signed.
Since Taiwan concluded its first reciprocal driver's licence agreement with Québec in 2008, Taiwan has successfully expanded this partnership to include all 10 Canadian provinces by 2018. Following years of hard work by Taiwanese policymakers and their counterparts in Yukon, the latter is now the 2nd Canadian territory to ink such an agreement. As a tourist hotspot renowned for its Northern Lights, Yukon is home to a thriving hospitality industry that is attracting more and more young adults looking for a unique working holiday and lifestyle experience in Canada’s Far North.
According to the terms of the agreement, holders of a Class B, C, D and E driver’s licence issued by Taiwan’s Ministry of Transportation and Communications who are simultaneously residents of Yukon may exchange their licences for the territory’s Class 5 driver’s licences. Conversely, holders of Yukon’s Class 5 driver’s licence who are simultaneously residents of Taiwan may exchange their licence for Taiwan’s Class B driver’s licence. The spirit of mutual reciprocity embodied by this MOU will greatly enhance the mobility of Taiwanese travellers within Yukon, and steer people-to-people ties between Taiwan and Yukon to new heights.
