EDMONTON -- The Alberta government has budgeted $600,000 this fiscal year to replace the province's paper personal health cards. The plan is found in the government's 2021-24 capital plan documents that were published as part of the latest provincial budget last month. The document lists a direction to "add personal health numbers to driver's licence and identification card" as part of a "registry system modernization" by Service Alberta. "We know that Albertans are frustrated with their paper health cards, which have no security features and are more than a few decades old," said Tricia Velthuizen, press secretary to Service Alberta Minister Nate Glubish.