The Ontario PCs have found that the Liberal government is quietly trying to raise drivers’ test fees over the Canada Day holiday. The Ministry of Transportation confirmed that, saying fees for all commercial drivers’ tests, for A-F licences, are set to increase on July 1st. Fees are set to jump to just over $23.
This fee hike will affect truck drivers, school bus drivers, ambulance drivers and many others. The PCs also say that last September the Liberals raised the cost of vehicle sticker renewal fees for licence plates to $120, which is 33 percent higher than in 2013.
Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli says the government has taken in $503-million more in increases from just vehicle registration and drivers licenses in the past four years. Fedeli says that’s an extraordinary increase, and they collect about $2.5-billion in fees a year already. He says that’s why the PCs keep saying that the Premier has made Ontario the most expensive jurisdiction to live.
Fedeli says this fee increase is nothing more than the government looking for extra nickels and dimes in the couch. Fedeli finished by saying rolling back these increases is just one of the many issues the PCs will have to deal with if they form government in 2018.