Originally Posted by
californiadreamin'
Answers to such a question in a public forum will have no bearing on what will transpire officially esepcially if you rely on answers that include "Probably OK...", "Should be OK...".
An expired passport is no longer "valid", hence would not be correctly accepted on its own merits. Having said that, you are at risk of having it accepted or not, of being slowed down or allowed through, as it is a human who will make the decision, rightly or wrongly, at the given moment.
While air canada is free to institute whatever policy it wants, the word 'valid' does not appear anywhere in the act itself.
Identity Screening Regulations (SOR/2007-82)
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/PDF/Regula...OR-2007-82.pdf
Boarding Gate
5. (1) An air carrier shall, at a boarding gate, screen any person who appears to be 18 years of age or older by asking the person for a restricted area identity card, for one piece of government-issued photo identification that shows his or her name or for two pieces of government-issued identification each of which shows his or her name.
(2) If the name on the restricted area identity card or the identification is not the same as the name on the person’s boarding pass, the air carrier shall compare the name on the restricted area identity card or the identification with those of persons specified to the air carrier by the Minister under paragraph 4.81(1)(b) of the Act.
(3) If the name on the restricted area identity card or the identification is the same as that of a person specified to the air carrier, the air carrier shall ask the person for one piece of government-issued photo identification that, in addition to showing his or her name, shows his or her 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.
(4) If the name, date of birth and gender on the identification are the same as those of a person specified to the air carrier, the air carrier shall immediately so inform the Minister.
SOR/2008-250, s. 2
So lots of room for interpretation both for the govt and for the airlines... but, following the exact letter of the law..
I fail to see how an expired passport was not issued by the government...perhaps there's some sort of legal definition understood in the canadian system for the word 'identification' that would imply non-expired?