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Originally Posted by Tiger
You aren't getting a ticket or a criminal charge for this. They are suspending your license and saying you shouldn't drive. They can't leave your car there so they have to tow it away so you paying for the impounding. Would you rather get a criminal charge or a moving violation that would significantly increase your insurance just so you have a chance of taking a day off work (and possibly losing money doing that) so you can fight something that they probably won't let you off of and pay the ticket anyways and get demerits etc. etc. If you want those civil liberties than go ahead. Instead you are really getting a slap on the wrist and a small fine. But if you want more cost to yourself overall that is fine.
I really don't believe this is in anyway a slight on our civil liberties... We have it really easy in Canada if this is a huge civil liberty problem
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You're right, we do have it really easy in Canada, largely because people have stood up for civil liberties in past.
They are suspending your license and saying you shouldn't drive based upon a whim. Don't like the color of your shirt, suspended. Don't like your tone, suspended. Don't like your suspenders, suspended. Police officers may never actually do any of those things, but the door is now open for them to do so, and there is absolutely no mechanism by which a citizen can obtain review.