Having worked in a high hazard industrial environment, I value and appreciate real Safety programs, consistently applied.
I agree with your point polekat, but I suspect you would not want to trade tax burdens with me - Canada is a great place, but not from a (constantly climbing) tax standpoint - we presently pay GST+PST on top of Safety/Environment taxes, and I'm sure the swivel servant actuaries are hard at work dreaming up the third tier.
What I'm trying to do, is better understand these byzantine regulations, before I go off and invest hard earned $ wisely.
The sad thing is there is no common sense at play - we only have light passenger safety inspections here in Ontario when you sell a vehicle. You could literally buy a car in Ontario and drive it for 25 years with the same tires and never have it subject to a scheduled inspection. What is more likely to cause an accident, an occasional issue with a trailer, or somebody driving with 15 year old tires ?
Taxes are driving most of this; simple/obvious existing vehicle regs seem poorly enforced. I've spent the better part of 20 years doing a long commute into Toronto - my personal favourite was brake lights - I'd see many vehicles with ALL brake lights burned out, and only maybe a tiny high mount LED strip working. Try and prove what was going on with that vehicle if you have the misfortune of rear ending it in snow, fog.... conditions (knock wood/my head, never happened to me, but easy to see how it could).
D.
I agree with your point polekat, but I suspect you would not want to trade tax burdens with me - Canada is a great place, but not from a (constantly climbing) tax standpoint - we presently pay GST+PST on top of Safety/Environment taxes, and I'm sure the swivel servant actuaries are hard at work dreaming up the third tier.
What I'm trying to do, is better understand these byzantine regulations, before I go off and invest hard earned $ wisely.
The sad thing is there is no common sense at play - we only have light passenger safety inspections here in Ontario when you sell a vehicle. You could literally buy a car in Ontario and drive it for 25 years with the same tires and never have it subject to a scheduled inspection. What is more likely to cause an accident, an occasional issue with a trailer, or somebody driving with 15 year old tires ?
Taxes are driving most of this; simple/obvious existing vehicle regs seem poorly enforced. I've spent the better part of 20 years doing a long commute into Toronto - my personal favourite was brake lights - I'd see many vehicles with ALL brake lights burned out, and only maybe a tiny high mount LED strip working. Try and prove what was going on with that vehicle if you have the misfortune of rear ending it in snow, fog.... conditions (knock wood/my head, never happened to me, but easy to see how it could).
D.