Ontario Driver's Licence Renewal

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice.

Current claim

• status: draft
• verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
• verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-07-02

The document was derived from the official ontario.ca driver's-licence guidance pages listed below. It remains draft, not verified.

Sources examined

• Document (id, version): ca/on/mto/drivers-licence-renewal / 1.0.0
• Spec version: GovSchema 0.3.0
• Authority: Ontario Ministry of Transportation ("MTO"), delivered through ServiceOntario.
• Primary source: "Renew your driver's licence" — https://www.ontario.ca/page/renew-drivers-licence (fetched live, 2026-07-02) — the online-eligibility gates (full G/M/GM/combination class, not cancelled/suspended, no address change in 90 days, no vision/written/ road test required, no new medical condition, no outstanding fines, no new photo/signature needed), the required online identifiers (licence number, 7-digit trillium number, postal code), the 5-year validity period and $90 base fee, the temporary-validation-document rule for renewals at/after expiry, and the photo requirements (new photo mandatory every 10 years or on demand for $35.75).
• Secondary source (scope boundary, not modelled): "Renew an expired driver's licence" — https://www.ontario.ca/page/renew-expired-drivers-licence (fetched live, 2026-07-02) — describes a separate, out-of-scope path for a licence expired long enough to require a vision test (1-3 years), vision + written + two road tests (3-10 years), or full reapplication as a new driver (over 10 years). Used only to confirm this schema's scope boundary (the standard renewal modelled here assumes none of those test tiers apply — captured by the requiresVisionWrittenOrRoadTest gate, which exits the flow rather than attempting to model the test regime).
• Secondary source (scope boundary, not modelled): "Renew your G driver's licence: 80 years and over" — https://www.ontario.ca/page/renew-g-drivers-licence-80-years-and-over (fetched live, 2026-07-02) — describes a separate, in-person-only, biennial program (vision screening or a recent optometrist's report, a cognitive clock-drawing screening exercise, mandatory senior-driver education material, a $36 fee). Used only to source the turns80OrOlderAtRenewal eligibility gate, which exits the flow rather than modelling that program.
• Secondary source (licence class names): "Driver's licence" — https://www.ontario.ca/page/drivers-licence (fetched live, 2026-07-02) — confirmed the G (car/van/small truck) and M (motorcycle) class names and the existence of commercial classes (A, D) and combination classes, corroborating the licenceClass enum.
• Field extraction method: these are prose guidance pages, not a fillable form or PDF; field names and enum values were derived from the pages' own wording (quoted in each field's sourceRef), not extracted from a PDF/AcroForm/XFA structure the way the sibling ca/on/registration/business-incorporation schema was.
• Retrieved / reviewed: 2026-07-02.
• Reviewer: GovSchema Engineering (Standards Engineer — initial authoring source review).

What was confirmed against the source

| Source element | Field(s) | |---|---| | "License isn't cancelled or suspended" | licenceCancelledOrSuspended | | "Haven't updated your address within 90 days" / "Recent movers cannot renew online within 90 days" | addressChangedWithinLast90Days | | "Don't require vision, written, or road tests" | requiresVisionWrittenOrRoadTest | | "Have no new medical conditions affecting driving ability" | hasNewMedicalCondition | | "Don't have outstanding fines or penalties" | hasOutstandingFinesOrPenalties | | "If you are not eligible to renew online, or if you need a new photo or signature, visit any ServiceOntario centre"; photo mandatory every 10 years / on demand for $35.75 | requiresNewPhotoOrSignature | | "full licence (G, M or GM class)"; "Combination classes (G1M, G2M, GM1, GM2) can renew online, though only the full portion will be renewed online" | licenceClass | | "An Ontario driver's licence is valid for 5 years"; temporary validation document at/near expiry | currentLicenceExpiryDate | | "Driver's licence number" (Required Documents) | licenceNumber | | "The 7-digit trillium number is printed on the back of your driver's licence" | trilliumNumber (validated as exactly 7 digits — the one field-level format this source states precisely) | | "you'll need to enter your licence number, trillium number, and postal code" | postalCode | | "$90 for a 5-year licence" | paymentMethod (fee amount itself intentionally not modelled as authoritative data, consistent with every other schema in this registry) | | Renewal frequency every 2 years once 80; vision/cognitive screening; in person only | turns80OrOlderAtRenewal |

What is NOT independently confirmed / out of scope

• The live, authenticated online renewal service itself (services.ontario.ca) was not reachable pre-authentication during this authoring pass — unlike the CA business-incorporation schema, which extracted an actual PDF form, this schema's field list is drawn entirely from the ontario.ca guidance pages' own prose, not a screen-by-screen walk of the live service. This is a materially different, weaker sourcing posture than a form-derived schema and is the primary reason status remains draft and maturity.level is structural-reference rather than anything higher.
• licenceNumber format. Third-party (non-official) sources describe a 15-character structure (a letter derived from surname followed by 14 digits, allegedly encoding date of birth and sex) commonly rendered as X1234-56789-01234. This structure is not confirmed against any official MTO/ontario.ca publication, and encoding demographic attributes in an identifier is exactly the kind of unconfirmed, sensitive claim this registry avoids asserting from a weak source (same discipline as numberNameLegalElement in the sibling business-incorporation schema). licenceNumber is therefore modelled as an opaque string with only a generous length bound (maxLength: 20), not a pattern. The conformance packet's example value uses the commonly-seen dashed format for plausibility only, not as an asserted requirement.
• Accepted card brands for online payment. The source states the fee amount but not which specific card networks the online service accepts; paymentMethod is therefore a generic credit_card/debit_card enum (unlike gb/dvla/driving-licence-first-provisional's paymentMethod, whose debit_or_credit_card value and accepted networks were both stated by its gov.uk source).
• Fee amounts and prorating. The $90 base fee and its variation for shorter remaining validity periods or the 80+ program's $36 fee are mentioned only in prose (a third-party summary reported "variations for partial renewal periods or drivers over 76", a figure this review could not corroborate against an official MTO fee schedule and does not repeat here). Fees are intentionally not modelled as authoritative data, consistent with every other schema in this registry.
• Combined driver's-licence-and-health-card renewal (DLHC). ontario.ca and services.ontario.ca both reference this combined product, but the services.ontario.ca product page returned only a client-rendered "Loading" placeholder to this review's fetch tooling and no ontario.ca guidance page describing its specific fields was found. Out of scope; flagged for a future revision with a reviewer able to drive the live, JavaScript-rendered page.
• Sex-designation changes, address changes, and photo/signature updates as their own flows. All three are mentioned on ontario.ca as in-person-only services distinct from renewal and are out of scope here, consistent with the eligibility-gate design (each has a corresponding boolean gate that exits the flow rather than modelling the in-person process itself).
• G1/G2/M1/M2 learner licences and commercial classes (A, D, etc.) are out of scope; this schema renews only a full G/M/GM licence (or the full portion of a combination class).
• The 80-years-and-over renewal program and the "expired more than the online-eligible window" renewal path are deliberately out of scope, each a distinct service per the secondary sources above; both are represented only as eligibility gates that exit this flow.

Scope and jurisdiction notes

• Driver licensing is provincial in Canada, unlike the single-authority GB/IE model — matching the catalog candidate's note that this schema pairs with us/ca/dmv/drivers-license-renewal, gb/dvla/driving-licence-renewal-photocard, and ie/dttas/driving-licence-renewal to show the same process across four jurisdictions.
• steps[0] ("eligibility") uses GSP-0013's transitions/exitReason branching (the gb/dvla/driving-licence-first-provisional precedent): every gate field that would route the applicant to an in-person service ends the flow with a distinct exitReason slug rather than proceeding to collect the remaining fields.
• This is the first GovSchema DMV schema for Ontario/Canada, closing one of the five AU/CA/DE/NZ/SG DMV gaps identified in the GOV-474 cycle (see spec/proposals/ history is not affected; this is a registry-only addition). CA DMV is a tier-1 catalog candidate; AU (NSW), DE, NZ, and SG DMV renewal candidates remain open.

Path to a verified claim (next step)

To advance to status: verified, a reviewer drives the live, authenticated services.ontario.ca driver's-licence renewal service with a mock account (or obtains an official MTO-published field list), confirms the exact licenceNumber format and the accepted online payment card brands noted above as unconfirmed, and records the outcome here — shipping a new schema version if discrepancies are found (VERSIONING.md §3, immutability).

Re-verification

Per the practice's Cadence, nextReviewBy is set to 2027-01-01 (6 months).