![]() And this would bring them into contact with the lively-named police force, the MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais. Many eastern Ontario residents, naturally, use Gatineau Park or have cottages on the Quebec side or just enjoy a good skylark in La Belle Province. The Gatineau police report, so far in April alone, 320 tickets were issued to Ontario motorists for having expired plates. Now, lest you think there are dozens and dozens of Ottawa residents ticketed for bad stickers on the Quebec side, you’re wrong: it’s hundreds, many, many hundreds. (Police say they were not legally required to honour Ontario’s grace period.) Several readers say even during the “grace period” in Ontario when an up-to-date sticker was not required, they were still ticketed in Quebec.A golfer reports that police regularly visit the Royal Ottawa Golf Club to “patrol” the area and check for expired Ontario plates, a case of the rich not getting richer.She can’t afford the $495 and has started a petition. Her sticker had indeed expired but, with parenting, losing her mother, the lack of a renewal notice from Ontario, it simply got away from her. Sharon Aird, a single mother of three, took her children tubing at Le Domaine de L’Ange Gardien in March.An NCC employee (no less) reports she was dropping off her daughter for a ski day at Camp Fortune and returned to the vehicle to find a ticket for having an “unlocked vehicle” in a parking lot.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. She has since done the free online renewal but adds, despite many family connections there: “We’re now afraid to drive in Quebec.” This was the grey time-zone when stickers and the fees were about to disappear in Ontario. Château Lafayette general manager Deek Labelle reports her husband was parked at Camp Fortune on March 4 with plate stickers dated Feb/22.Days later, he got not one, but two tickets in the mail, each for $495 - one issued at the Mill, the other at the Spa, for having an expired Ontario sticker on his licence plate. He figures he spent close to $2,000 with local tourist outfits. Kingston resident Matt Liddell and his partner had a two-day getaway in the Outaouais, enjoying both the Wakefield Mill and Spa Nordik.It’s been a long time since I’ve heard so many outrageous-sounding stories than Tuesday’s outpouring about Quebec police targeting Ontario motorists for expired stickers on their licence plates. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.National Capital Region's Top Employers.
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