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Ministry gets serious

with forgetful

PICKING UP where last
“weck’s column left off, here is
“another Sroup of interesting
‘new initiatives announced last
spring by Transportation and
Highways Minister Jackie
Pement and to be implement-
-ed over the next year.

_. For starters: “Tough new mea-
sures by the province to collect
unpaid traffic fines are getting

“results,” says Pement.
For years, moving violations

have been subject to fines (and point ~.

penalties) that were only effectively -
collectable when one went in for a
driver's licence renewal once every
five years. As often as not, however,
drivers owing money to the govemn-
“ ment simply avoided r renewing their
licences altogether.’ ©:
: After all, driving ©
without a licence and...
etting caught merely :
resulted in two or three’.
points on the driver's
record and another fine
‘that-wouldn’t n necessar-”
ily get paid. Trony.:
This is not se any:
er. First of. all, the
Ministry has stepped
up its fine collection...” :;.
methods by. going high-tech - —

entioned in this space last week = _—

and hiring an external and aggressive
lection agency, and by empower-
ing themselves to garish wages:
and/or bank accounts. °°:
Efforts over the last six ‘mionths
: have apparently reduced the monthly

Member Professional -

Sales Guild.

Shaun

Conlin

" growth in outstanding traffic from

$2.4 miltion to $400,000. Although I

~ find this figure dubious it’s difficult .
to get accurate stuts from 1993, let

alone 1995 — it's not inconceiv-

ee

66 The Ministry has stepped up its
fine collection methods by going high-
_ tech and hiring: an external aggressive

collection agency. ; 99

“able: Citing an example, Pement,

reported “..:'an offender had com-.
mitied 46 | (forty-six!) violations ,
totaling more than $4,600. After

«refusing to pay, a lien was placed ¢ on,
“his property, which resulted in ‘the ~

provincial government receiv: ing full

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Secondly. if a driver with out:
stinding fines still manages to slip
through this system and drives with
an expired or suspended licence —
and gets caught doing so — then
that driver can and will have the
vehicle they are caught in impound-
ed on the spot — impounded for up
to 60 days regardless who the regis-
fered owner is,

__ This particular initiative does not
take effect until next spring so those .
of you who owe money have a few

- more months to pay up.

I often hear people complain
about yet another “money grab" by
the government.

What these whiners don't seem
to grasp is that it takes money to run
and monitor our roads and the peo-
ple who drive on them.”

I am one of many critics who
thinks the ‘Ministry of Transportation
_and Highways spends
money unwisely, if not

foolishly, but at this
juncture, { must
epplaud these tough
new laws.”

The Ministry, while:
being typically vague,
boasts “projected”. sav-
ings of up to “100.

~ lives, thousands of =.
* injuries and $350 mil-

~ Hon in ‘accident-related costs.” Good.

‘Fines, you see, are an effective:
way of ensuring safer driving habits
only when they can adversely affect’

«a driver's pocket-book « or, at least,

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