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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
Driver's Handbook Online
The Driver's Handbook Online is a guide only. For official purposes, please refer to the Highway Traffic Act, the Motorized Snow Vehicles Act and the Off-Road Vehicles Act of Ontario.
If you're learning to drive in Ontario, then this is for you. It's all here—rules of the road, safe driving practices and how to get your licence to drive a car, van or small truck.
Driving is a privilege—not a right.
http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/dan...k/contents.htm
Appellate courts in other provinces have all held that driving is not a right protected by s.7 of the Charter:R. v. Neale (1986), 52 C.R. (3d) 376 (Alta C.A.);
Prince Edward Island (Registrar of Motor Vehicles) v. Rankin (1991), 30 M.V.R. (2d) 122 (P.E.I.S.C.A.D.);
Ginther v. Sask. Govt. Ins., [1988] 4 W.W.R. 738 (Sask. C.A.);
Paganelli v. Ontario (Reg. Of Motor Vehicles) (1987), 6 M.V.R. (2d) 252 (Ont. Div. Ct.);
R. v. LeClair (1990), 20 M.V.R. (2d) 47 (Man. Q.B.);
White v. Nova Scotia (Registrar of Motor Vehicles) (1996), 20 M.V.R. (3d) 192 (N.S.S.C.);
R. v. Smith (1989), 14 M.V.R. (2d) 166 (Y.C.A.)
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Still haven't looked up privilege, eh.
Just another erosion of our rights by small minded power grabbers.