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Old 03-19-2009, 09:16 PM   #73
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Allow me to be the first lawyer to come out and say that the premise that you can apply the Bills of Exchange act to citations issued for offences is gibberish. The Bills of Exchange Act deals with voluntary commercial transactions, not with penalties imposed for breach of laws passed by Parliament or Legislatures. The specific Acts (i.e. Traffic Safety Act) occupy the field in terms of defining offences, penalties, mechanisms for contesting, etc. There is no room for the Bills of Exchange Act to operate in the sphere of tickets and fines.

You may want to read the Provincial and Federal Interpretation Acts, the Judicature Act, the Rules of Court, and the Traffic Safety Act before coming up with any more theories. In addition, you may want to also take a constitutional law course to understand why the Federal Government power relating to Banking and Bills of Exchange does not operate within the Provincial sphere of Regulating Highways in the Province which is where the power to fine is derived. (Assuming of course that your assertion that a ticket is a bill of exchange isn't ludicrous on it's face.)
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