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Originally Posted by stampsx2
^^^ so then what's all this talk about a shortage. I don't understand that either.
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The current ones have been is use for over 25 years. They don't re-use licence plate numbers and don't allow certain combinations of letters that form some actual words, or closely resemble actual words. I think for a long time they didn't use any vowels except the letter A to indicate handicap plates.
I believe the letters I and O aren't used because they look too much like 1 and 0. I think S and Z might also be out of the rotation because of their resemblance to 5 and 2 (but I'm not sure about that).
All of those restrictions cut down the available combinations quite a bit, then it just becomes a compounding problem of people getting new plates every time they register a vehicle; plus moving in and out of the province; as well as old people dying and young people coming of age.