I see no problem with an officer running plates, not with 265,000 suspended drivers in Ontario, they should be running everything all the time. Agreed, non compliant drivers and vehicles need to be taken off the road and I hope that plate recognition setup the OPP was or is testing works out. Hope Ontario finally gets the uninsured vehicles project thing sorted out too or introduces public insurance with rates that even the poorest people can afford. Makes you wonder how your son gets all this attention? Rides to school, work, his friends with the occasional trip to the mall. Last time he was...

I just have to vent about this... My wife and I bought a moped for our son who recently turned 16 and got his M1, he uses it to get to school, his girlfriends and his Saturday afternoon job. When we registered and insured it we put everything in my name because the deal with him was that if he messed up at school, drove like a maniac etc etc we would pull the plug and sell it which of course would be real easy to do since I'm the legal owner of it. Now the thing is I don't have an M licence of any kind and just about every time he's been out on this thing he's been stopped and the reason given...

Under the R.I.D.E. program, the police are stopping and detaining motorists arbitrarily to investigate whether or not they might be committing a criminal offence.

Well if WalMart, Best Buy, Future Shop and a whole lot of other retailers can stop you at the exit door so someone can look in your bag or check your receipt, sometimes forcefully, and get away with it with little or no fuss I don't see why the police can't stop you at a RIDE check

Lawman and Squishy thank you for the replies. Just to clarify I'm not in a position where I need a defence, I'm simply involved in a discussion where the legality of things like gopeds, bicycles with electric or gasoline motor kits installed, mobility scooters modified to use a gasoline engine are being debated. The HTA defines a motor vehicle with the following text. motor vehicle" includes an automobile, a motorcycle, a motor-assisted bicycle unless otherwise indicated in this Act, and any other vehicle propelled or driven otherwise than by muscular power, but does not include a street ...

What if a bicycle based contraption meets none of the provincial or federal specifications for power assisted or motor assisted in terms of speed, gearbox, watt or cc rating and so on. What if a person has contacted the MTO and has been told over and over that there is no possible way to register a bicycle based contraption in Ontario. Same goes for insurance what if the insurance companies say they have no classification so no insurance is available. This is the debate I'm involved in, how does one defend themselves against charges of not having something when that something is not available?...

The compulsory automobile insurance act 2.(1) says subject to the regulations, no owner or lessee of a motor vehicle shall, (a) operate the motor vehicle; or (b) cause or permit the motor vehicle to be operated, on a highway unless the motor vehicle is insured under a contract of automobile insurance. and then a little farther down it says that it's an offence if your not in compliance with the above. Would being charge with an offence under the compulsory automobile insurance act not imply that insurance was available to you but you chose to scoff the law and not obtain it? With respect to de...

Hi there I'm Stewart and I found your forums while looking for some HTA information. Lot's of good information here!!