Nice:
Cars adapted for street racing can be seized and destroyed, even if charges haven’t been laid and a race has not taken place, Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant said Wednesday.
Bryant warned potential racers that all it takes is a tip from police to seize and destroy their cars. Car junkies who pour thousands of dollars into their vehicles to make them as fast as possible are wasting their money, Bryant said.
“If we can establish someone has parts and they’re juicing up their car — obviously for the purpose of street racing — then we can seize those vehicles,” Bryant said.
“We will seize it and you will never see it again. We will crush your car, we will crush the parts.” — cbc.ca
I miss the old days where we actually waited for someone to commit a crime before we punished them. I suppose this is to be expected in a country where we enjoy less protection of our private property than a citizen of communist China does.
“We’re not allowed to drive a car that has failed emission standards…”
You’re allowed to own it, though. See a SLIGHT difference there?
Here is my question: What happens if the car is financed by say, the Toronto Dominion Bank. They will have a lean on the car. So when the kid who may or may not have done anything illegal has his car completely and maliciously destroyed by the Liberal government of Ontario, will the Bank in it’s right to demand they be charged for destroying what amounts to their property? The kid isn’t going to want to keep paying for something that was stolen. Would his insurance company have something to say about his claim? Ahh, maybe I just think too much.
Leave Ontario now … come out west and take one of the many jobs available in Alberta and BC.
Leave the insanity of Liberalism behind and help us keep the West from moving that way.
The is no economic future in Ontario and Quebec other than what they can continue to extort from the provinces with a future.
Come on out … you will love it here. It’s freer and cleaner and our immigrant are apparently a lot more civilized than yours.
the governor of California visited Ontario not to long ago and now Ontario would seem to be bringing in very similiar policies on street racing as the ones in the golden state.you can even attend the “crushing”if your up to it.Arnie and Mc Guinty what a team or is it possible mr bryant thought this whole approach up himself.you folks in Ontario would know the answer to that one.
TJ,
Technically, at least with the HTA in morOntario, it’s not illegal to pass on solid or double solid lines. Only if it’s unsafe to pass. Seriously.
Just an FYI and this info comes straight from one of the most enthusiastic (traffic and towing of unsafe vehicles) cops I work with.
een
These proposed actions by the Ontario politicos, (who do not engage in independent thought at all, just work with whatever the pollsters tell them is a hot issue), are the result of a number of recent deaths that have resulted from street racing. The public is outraged, cops and their political masters are foaming at the microphones in their quest to catch the wave of sentiment.
However, a few weeks ago, a couple of well heeled kids with well connected fathers were given a period of house arrest for driving their Hi priced and Higher powered German cars at 140 KPH on a city street and killing an immigrant taxi driver. Slap on the wrist.
Several more dead people this past week resulting from street racing and then June 21, a pair of twenty-something year old visitors from the USA are caught racing a matching pair of Corvettes @ over 200 KPH through heavy traffic on the busy 400 Highway.
They have been arrested and while I am confident that they too will receive a slap on the wrist, I would love to have the franchise to sell tickets to an event at the SkyDome where a Monster truck plays Patty Cake with those two confiscated Vettes.
May not be “fair” rough justice rarely is. But being nice and understanding and all squishy about the crocodile tears and insincere apologies ain’t working.
I don’t think the local PD is going to be sneaking around at night inspecting Hyundai’s for Nitro bottles but they would love to have some real toothy offences to site whenever they get their hands of some pinhead whose tire pressure is greater then their IQ. If I have to choose sides, I am with the Thin Blue line.
Why the uproar just over cars? The “conservatives” in Ontario enacted legislation that allowed for the seizure of homes and other real property without charges being made if the owner is suspected of being involved in “gangsterism”.
Why the uproar just over cars? The “conservatives” in Ontario enacted legislation that allowed for the seizure of homes and other real property without charges being made if the owner is suspected of being involved in “gangsterism”.
“Several more dead people this past week resulting from street racing”
Tom
I live in Kingston and I don’t remember “several” people being killed in the past week. Yes, some were injured in one incident involving street racing and a truck driver was killed evading a racing car, but not several.
While I share your outrage that a couple of kids got away with murder, that fault lies with the judge who handed down the sentence. I agree we need tougher sentencing for these kinds of crimes, however, we should not allow our anger to get so out of control that we allow the government to bring in laws that takes away a persons presumption of innocence, no matter what the crime is.
‘The more exaggerated the imposition of law and order is on the lower classes in a country, the bigger the crooks are at the top.’
Now, what party is running Ontario?