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Education Society: Service Card and House Mortgage

education society: My will, bank account, house mortgage and legal documentation all use this name, said Tung, according to Vancouver Courier. When the government combined the MSP card and driver's licence together, it didn't consider people with different names on the cards. When Kenneth Tung, president of Civic Education Society, applied for his B.C. Service Card, which combines his driver's licence and Medical Services Plan MSP he was told he must remove his English name that appears on his driver's licence because it's not the Chinese name on his MSP and now defunct citizenship card.article continues below Trending Stories Red Gate Arts Society latest Vancouver arts space to close Canadian women take silver in Olympic hockey Driver's excuse for not clearing windshield doesn't fly with police But the English name has been my legal name this past 15 years. It has created a frustrating problem for tens of thousands of immigrant Canadians, he added. When I first moved to Canada 30 years ago, we could only use our Chinese name on our driver's licence, explained Tung. Compounding the frustration, said Tung, is the fact ICBC changed its policy 15 years ago, allowing, or even preferring, to add English names to their driver's licence. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.