You are incredibly lucky. Here is what happened to my husband, about 8 years ago.
He was driving on Anderson Road SW and got pulled over by a lady police officer.
She asked him, do you know why I have pulled you over? My husband replied that he had no clue.
So she told him that he was driving a vehicle that was not registered. My husband was astounded because for an eternity, everyone in our family renews in November, when the mailings and notices come out for us.
She told my husband that as astounded as he was, his vehicle was not registered. All she did was drive him to the nearest registry, about 10 blocks away.
She gave him a ticket for driving an unregistered vehicle. Then my husband had to pay for having his car towed to the impound lot and he had to pay to get the vehicle out of that impound lot too. In total, he was out almost $1000.00. He was lucky that his insurance was completely up to date or the bill would have been significantly higher.
When my husband got to the registry, he asked them to look into what could possibly have happened. The guy did and it had been reported that the notice to register his vehicle had been returned to Edmonton. They don't know why, they presumed it went to the wrong mailing address and got returned. I guess my husband presumed that since everyone else in the family had gotten notifications to register their vehicle, his had been taken care of us well. I quite often just would do both our vehicles.
Anyhow, making a long story short, the ONUS is on the OWNER of the vehicle to make sure it is insured and registered.
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