The Power of Passports

The government is replacing the images of Vimy, Rene Le Weik and Gordon Lightfoot on Canada's passports. The changes are meant to convey a sense of Canadian identity to all new Canadians who will be able to use them in their travel documents. Rob Smith: "I think that they're underestimating the symbolic nature of what a passport is" Chantal Poirier: I'm not indifferent to how many stamps I can collect with any given passport because it gives me a card for travelling elsewhere.