You can now pass Ontario's final driver's licence road test without showing you can parallel park

Thousands of people in Ontario who are facing their final driver’s licence road test may no longer have to prove they can execute a three-point turn, a roadside emergency stop or even the dreaded parallel parking manoeuvre.

It’s all part of the province’s plan to shorten the test to help clear a massive backlog built up during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

In a statement, a spokesperson for the Ontario Transportation Ministry said the changes will remove “duplicative elements” in the G-class test that were already part of the earlier G2 test in the province’s graduating licensing program.

The statement says the three-point turn, parallel parking and emergency