ServiceOntario
A ServiceOntario location in Markham | |
Agency overview | |
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Formed | 2006[1] |
Minister responsible | |
Website | serviceontario |
ServiceOntario is an agency of the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services which provides a single point of contact for most government services in the province of Ontario, Canada. Established in 2006, it provides services primarily online and in-person at storefront locations; it also operates telephone call centres.[1]
Some services were also formerly provided by automated ServiceOntario self-service kiosks located primarily in shopping malls.[1] Following the discovery in 2012 that illegal card skimming devices were installed on some kiosks in the Greater Toronto Area, all kiosks were shutdown province-wide for security reasons.[2] The provincial government permanently discontinued the kiosks later that year.[3]
Services
The following are some of the services delivered by ServiceOntario on behalf of the government:
- Health card registration
- Birth, marriage and death certificates
- Driver and vehicle licensing
- Business registration
- Fishing and hunting licences
- Address change
- Newborn registration
- Ontario government publications
See also
References
- ^ a b c Auditor General of Ontario (2013). Annual Report of the Office of the Auditor General of Ontario: Ministry of Government Services (PDF) (Report). Queen's Printer for Ontario. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
- ^ "ServiceOntario kiosks remain out of order after illegal card readers found". 680News. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
- ^ "ServiceOntario kiosks permanently closed". Government of Ontario. Retrieved 14 June 2017.