Ontario Highway Traffic Act

I can't answer that for you. It depends how you feel about the ticket, what you can afford to have on your record, what you can afford to spend in terms of time and money in your defence, etc

Section 3(b) of the CAIA says:

(b) surrenders an insurance card for inspection to a police officer, when requested to do so, purporting to show that the motor vehicle is insured under a contract of automobile insurance when the motor vehicle is not so insured,

Since it's only an offence to surrender the card when requested to do so by a police ...

The points are non-negotiable. They are an administrative action by the MTO. No one has any power to reduce them. If you get convicted of an offence you will get whatever points are associated with that offence. Your only chance for less or no points is to plead guilty to a lesser offence (which carries fewer points) or be acquitted on whatever ...

Not as a practice, but it's irrelevant since the charge is not driving without insurance, it's failing to produce the insurance slip when requested to do so.

Also, I would not that if you do get caught presenting an insurance slip as valid when the policy has, in fact been canceled, you can be charged with producing evidence of false insurance ...

The officer's discretion determines.

It is a bad idea to be the second or third car in the intersection waiting for the first car to make their turn because, just as you suggested, they don't always make it through before the light turns red and then they're stuck obstructing the intersection.

However, it is not an offence (red light or otherwise) to be already in the intersection ...

No, because when someone gets a reduced fine it's in exchange for a guilty plea, which means there's no trial and the judge doesn't weigh in on it so these situations never end up being recorded as case law.

A regular traffic ticket, like a speeding ticket or a val tag ticket.

It might, depends on the prosecutor.

No case law on that but I've seen it done numerous times. Did you have the valid out of province licence when you were stopped and charged with driving on a suspended Ontario licence or did you get the out of province licence after that?

Drive no licence is $260 + cost & surcharge for a total of $325

There is some debate around what is considered a fatal errors and it does sometimes depend on the JP. Definitely missing date, missing location, missing or incorrect charge, or missing person would be fatal because without those 4 they can't read the charge in.

Possible fatal errors would be missing/incorrect time, incorrect date, incorrect set ...

Red light tickets (both fail to stop and proceed before green) don't apply if you were already in the intersection when the light turned red.

The 7 days applies to Part 1 offences (PONs aka Tickets).

A part 3 ticket is subject to the 6 month time limit as outlined in the Provincial Offences Act.

Address is not a fatal error, nor is spelling your name wrong. The name can be amended and the address doesn't even have to be.

He could ask them for the reason he being stopped, satisfy them on that could (i.e. provide docs, etc), then if they ask him about searching the vehicle he could ask them if he's still being detained, since it seems the reason he was stopped has been investigated and satisfied.

If he's not being detained then he's free to go. If he is being ...

$228 and $283 are the correct amounts for 38 over on a Part 1