(Canadian here) For a year or two, I didn't have a valid† form of photo ID. I don't drive, so I either didn't have a license or didn't have a learner's license

(Canadian here) For a year or two, I didn't have a valid† form of photo ID. I don't drive, so I either didn't have a license or didn't have a learner's license that hadn't expired. You'd be surprised how far you can get by day-to-day without a legal photo ID. Utilities don't require photo ID, nor does voting (you're mailed a text-based voter registration piece of paper and just… show up and vote). It's nice. †I did have a photo provincial health card, but oddly enough, it's legally not considered a valid government ID in many contexts. I also had a passport but I had let it expire and didn't renew it for a while. Even when I did renew it, I would not carry my passport around with me, so it would not count as day-to-day photo ID. I have since acquired a provincial photo ID card, which looks like a license, but is a different colour and doesn't permit you to drive (Duh!) These weren't available til a few years ago.