All Ontario Drivers should be interested in this

[Rolling Estonian]

I was reading the Star and came across this. http://www.petitiononline.com/....html

It's a petition to revise Ontario's Street Racing Law.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the law it allows a police officer the right to have the vehicle impounded and license suspended for anyone thought to be "street racing" (there number of other qualifiers for immediate roadside suspensions, such as driving >150 km/h)

From the Toronto Star... "There are a growing number of Ontario citizens getting frustrated with our current Ontario Government's stance on the newly legislated "street racing law."

We've written endless letters to elected officials, and all we get back are "canned" responses.

What strikes us as the most glaring issue with the legislation is that the up-front car seizure and license suspension seems to be a blatant violation of our civil right to due process. And apparently, nobody from our government is prepared to address this issue.

So we've decided to try and get organized and started an online petition.

The purpose of posting an online petition is to provide elected officials with an indication of the number of people who have a problem with this type of new legislation.

We don't want anyone to get confused either. We're not promoting that anyone go out and break the law – far from it.

We believe that anyone who breaks the law deserves punishment as much as the next person. But this new legislation clearly crosses the line of good intentions, and it's a trend that should be stopped.

What we're asking for here is that the law be revised, as opposed to scrapped. The part that we're asking for a revision on is the immediate seven-day vehicle seizure and license suspension. "


Modified by Rolling Estonian at 11:51 AM 5/12/2008

[ironian]

Thanks. Signed it.

[vi3t89]

i remember the 2 corvettes racing on the 401 that got impounded and and ran over with a bulldozer on the news lol soo sad