500K Alberta drivers automatically free of GDL program after UCP ends 'licensing scheme'

Roughly 500,000 Albertans holding a graduated drivers license (GDL) and a clean record will soon have a full permit without having to pay the $154 fee and take another test. Notification letters will soon be in the mail, the United Conservative Party government announced Monday, following up on a promise from last fall. “GDL was an expensive, duplicative licensing scheme that discriminated against good young drivers," Transportation and Economic Corridors Minister Devin Dreeshen said in a