If you are not an idiot or just really good at deceiving us all into thinking you aren't, they give you a paper temporary license, and you can start driving that day. As long as you have someone with or more years of blessed EXP. in the passengers seat.
After 8 months to a year of scaring the shit out of the people who've reluctantly let you drive their car, and paying for driving school (unless you want to wait a full year) you can do more with only yourself in the car. And that carries on for another 8-12 months and then you are fully license and can start running weed from Canada into the U.S.
Why am I writing this? It might not make sense to everyone that doesn't live in Ontario, and for those that do they simply just give no fuck cause they did it all years ago and dread the day they have to go back. But really, I'm just overstating the fact, in a glorious manner, that I took public transit most of my life. I say most cause now I'm just another idiot on the road. Maybe you'll see me one day soon. I'll be the driver making funny faces at you and bouncing around while his girlfriend is rolling her eyes so hard that she's astrally projected herself into some beautiful dimension of the collective consciousness's sense of peace, where everything tastes like the beautiful butterflies you get when you tried to walk across a fallen tree over a small stream when you were little and I have manners or a sense of shame.