Ontario Highway Traffic Act

From the Manitoba site:

About the renewal process
With our easy and convenient five-year licences and policies, youll only need to visit an Autopac agent once every five years, unless you want to change or cancel your policy between renewals.

However, you still pay for your drivers licence and vehicle insurance every year. In years between ...

Remember it's beyond reasonable doubt....not absolute proof. The JPs are not idiots. If you say you've holding a scientific calculator to your head whilst talking to yourself you're not going to get very far.

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Thanks for the update. Nice to hear back from people at the end of the process. Nice outcome for you.

If it were for a highway traffic matter I can't imagine a JP being at all happy with a copper taking a dash cam. If it were something criminal, dangerous driving causing death for example, then the evidential value would be there to justify doing so.

Actually if you knew anything about me the picture of how you see coppers and how I policed are completely at odds.

The reason I said I suspected was due to some simple elements of statement analysis that I am not going to get into here. I do disagree that you can hit something and not know it unless it was something very soft.

Bottom line is you ...

But if you were in a collision (and from your post I suspect that you were) then you would be required to do so.

Here's the first one that pops up:

http://svan.ca/police-rights/

Except that doesn't say when you do have to identify yourself. Following this will, in some circumstances, get you arrested for failure to identify.

Not very useful.

Call CBC !!!

Call your MP. They should get involved.

If you are willing to plead to a lesser offence then why hire a paralegal. They won't get any better deal that you can get yourself and will then congratulate themselves on a 'win'.

There are certain bits of information a driver must provide after a collision with no caution required. I never had someone sign my notes during an investigation. They ...

If you are willing to settle for a minor traffic conviction then absolutely you can speak to the prosecutor yourself. I would be very surprised if you weren't offered something like Fail to Drive in Marked Lane. I wouldn't worry about the points - they only count if you get a lot of them. The issue with most tickets is the financial aspect firstly ...

They would need to identify you as the driver and they could only do that if you admitted it.

I suspect the likely outcomes are (in order of likelihood):

- the guard whistled at you and did nothing more
- the guard reported your plate and you get a letter cautioning you not to do it again
- they launch an investigation into who was driving and ...

That may be true in many cases but often I have sought a second version to the story which has resulted in no charge being laid. If you say nothing the officer can only rely on the other person's version of events.

On top of that is the tactic I recommend to my friends: be friendly and apologise. Often that will get you a warning. Of course if ...

You got lucky with the officer. Any of the coppers I know would have said bring it on.....we get paid to be in court, I couldn't give a hoot how long you keep me on the stand and the JPs I know would have shut you down pretty quickly.