Seems our government Minister took a typical mushy PC approach:
Identity Screening Regulations
The full text of the Regulations can be found on the Department of Justice web site at the following link:
The Identity Screening Regulations require airlines to screen each person's name against the specified-persons list for any person who appears to be 18 years of age or older before issuing a boarding pass. The Regulations take into account the various ways in which the boarding pass may be obtained, such as at an airport check-in counter, at the kiosk or via the Internet.
If the name of the person is the same as that of a person specified to the air carrier, the air carrier must ask the person for one piece of government-issued photo identification that shows his or her name, date of birth and gender or for two pieces of government-issued identification at least one of which shows his or her name, date of birth and gender.
When a possible match is verified with government issued identification, the air carrier must contact Transport Canada who will then determine whether the individual poses a threat to aviation security.
If an emergency direction is issued, Transport Canada will provide the air carrier contact information for the Department of Transport's Office of Reconsideration and the air carrier will make that contact information available to the person.
The screening is not completed until Transport Canada checks the person's name against the list and informs the air carrier whether an emergency direction will be issued or not.
Link is here.
