Originally Posted by
yyzvoyageur
Do you mean the airline staff members are checking your ID? The article is referring to a suggestion by Transport Canada that CATSA should start doing so as well.
Yes, airline staff have been doing that for as long as I can remember. What possible value could CATSA bring to the process? Am I going to morph into another person between check-in and boarding? My identity is, contrary to popular belief, in no way germane to security.