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http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Ont_Front_Plate/

This is a petition to getting rid of the front licence plate in Ontario. Please be mature when making comments and sign YOUR real name.

These were my comments in case anyone needs ideas:
My front plate damages my front bumper by putting in unnecessary holes and scratches into it when passing through the car wash. Also, the plate at times falls off in the car wash and is very flimsy on the front, I have heard reports of people getting their front plates stolen and used at gas stations to steal gas. Last year, I had a small bumper to bumper accident that caused no damage except for licence plate holes in my rear bumper and some blue and white paint off the plate. Please get rid of this useless plate. It is costing drivers of Ontario money when registering the vehicle and wasting natural resources to create these things. Quebec and some northern states have no front plates and there are no issues in these areas. Please take this into deep consideration.

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What the petition states:

Honourable Donna Cansfield
Minister of Transportation
M.P.P. Etobicoke Centre

We, the Undersigned, petition the Province of Ontario to revoke the current law requiring the display of a front license plate on passenger vehicles. We believe that there are significant benefits in not requiring front license plates and our reasons for this belief are briefly summarized in the paragraphs below.

Firstly, eliminating the need for a front license plate will significantly reduce the Province's costs associated with production, storage, and accounting for the additional plate. In 2004 the province of Saskatchewan joined five other provinces who no longer require a front license plate - reportedly saving the government $370 000 per year, while helping to reduce insurance costs. See http://www.gov.sk.ca/news?news...

Secondly, the front license plate negatively affects the efficiency of the vehicle by interrupting the aerodynamics with the plate at the vehicle's primary point of attack. Further, many vehicles suffer further losses in efficiency with the front plate's blockage of large portions of the front air-intake of the vehicle, resulting in increased fuel consumption, and increased greenhouse emissions.

Thirdly, unnecessary damage is sustained from minor bumper-to-bumper collisions, resulting from the front plate mounting brackets and bolts on passenger cars, which cause cracks and abrasions to the rear bumpers of the cars that they hit, which would otherwise be absorbed.

Alberta, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan and the three territories use single license plates. With Ontario's population greater than 10x that of Saskatchewan, the demonstrated tax savings for the Province would be millions of dollars per year, every year. In light of the cost savings for the Province, cutting greenhouse emissions, and other positive effects, we are asking that this law be repealed.


Sincerely,

 
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... lets concentrate on important like not using traffic tickets as cash cows, curbing Insurnace companies pwning our asses, increasing tolerance for modifed cars... like that... I dont give 2 ***** about front plates... Sorry for those guys who are about to flame me cuz they just spent 2k on a new front bumper and like that

 
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I can see your concern, but to be honest with you, those things will not change for one reason: The government is making a killing off people and claiming they have a good reason and it helps drivers be better. What's better in the governments eyes? A person who pays taxes, drives a generic garbage car, never gets into accidents, and drives the speed limit to the tee. Will this happen? NO. Let's face it we're people, but the government clearly sees that. That is why They make these bullshit laws. If you look at Europe, the rules to driving are far less constricting, and somehow everybody manages to deal there. The government doesn't target the motorists to make money, they just make cuts elsewhere, or have a tax system that works out. Or, the system isn't as crooked, and money actually flows back to the people.

Either way, this isn't a political site, we can argue about these things for years. Why I posted this up is because I want to reduce the costs and waste of materials put into this junk we don't need, and possibly put it somewhere that we need that money spent like the health care system or the education system.

 
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The problem is that getting what you suggest done is a monumental undertaking for the government becuase bureacrucy is great, so like I said it doesn't matter what you suggest is nearly as unlikely as what I suggested.

 
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I hope this passes one day.
Can't stand front plates!

 
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me too

 
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Sorry, not really a big concern for me. My stock bumper comes with a great place for me to mount my front plate, and I wash my car by hand.

 
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Finally someone makes a big deal about this....

 
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I hate front plates

 
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Will not change, online petition will do nada.

You might as well post a link to a facebook drunk girl group, better chance of accomplishing something there.

Front plate is fine with me.

 
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there's a drunk girl group on facebook? NO WAY!!! sweet i'm gonna check it out right now.

 
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sweet drunk girl group, im gona do a search befor ei go to work

the only people who are signing the front plate thing are the ones with gay *** body kits, and id like to watch them get ruined by a car wash. i personally dont care, i dont go outside and say uhhhh my mustang and suv look so damn ugly with front plates on them.

 
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i wait for the day this becomes real!

 
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youll be waiting a really long time. itll never happen.

this will probably happen around the same time that the government isnt corrupt and when street racing stops