The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Vancouver has reached a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Infrastructure of the Northwest Territories to mutually recognize each other’s driver's licences on July 19th, 2024, which took effect immediately upon signing.
Since Taiwan concluded its first reciprocal driver's license agreement with Québec in 2008, Taiwan has successfully expanded this partnership to include all 10 Canadian provinces by 2018. Following years of discussion, Northwest Territories is now the 1st Canadian territory, and the 11th Canadian administrative division, to ink such an agreement. As a tourist hotspot famed for its Aurora Borealis, Northwest Territories is home to a thriving hospitality industry that is attracting more and more young adults looking for a unique working holiday and living experience in Canada’s Far North.
According to the terms of the agreement, holders of Class B, C, D and E driver’s licences issued by Taiwan’s Ministry of Transportation and Communications who are simultaneously residents of the Northwest Territories may exchange their licences for the territory’s Class 5 driver’s licences. Conversely, holders of a Northwest Territories’ 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 the Northwest Territories, and steer people-to-people ties between Taiwan and the Northwest Territories to new heights.
