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2 Responses to “Robert and team Join Roy Green on the Corus National Radio Network”

1. Rod Murray says:
   November 30th, 2007 at 1:24 pm

   I sent this off to TC this week!
   Dear Sir:

   There is really only one equitable solution to the conundrum and impasse that Transport Canada finds itself in, with all of the post Sept 1 2007 manufactured vehicles that are currently in “limbo”.
   Realistically, and even perhaps legally, TC cannot justify NOT enforcing CMVSS 114. They cannot do this because to do this would be selective enforcement that would expose them to legal action from those that they now try to enforce CMVSS 114 upon, after they give “amnesty” to those that have the subject vehicles in “limbo” that currently do not comply with CMVSS 114.
   There is nothing wrong with CMVSS 114, in which it calls for every passenger car(etc) manufactured after Sept 1 2007 “shall be EQUIPPED (emphasis mine) with an immobilization systems that meets one of the following sets of requirements as modified by subsection (5), (6) or (7):
   (a) “of National Standard of Canada CAN/ULC-S338-98″.
   Nowhere in either CMVSS 114 or CAN/ULC-S338-98 is there set out that ONLY the OEM, of the vehicle, can install the equipment meeting CMVSS 114 or CAN/ULC-S338-98. In fact the Insurance Bureau of Canada List four (4) AFTER-MARKET systems that DO COMPLY with CAN/ULC-S338-98.
   Because there is nothing wrong with CMVSS 114, (in fact the benefits a potentially very large), TC should insist, that all of the post Sept 1 2007 vehicles, that do not meet CMVSS 114 and are stuck in “limbo”, be equipped, per CMVSS 114, with an After Market unit from the list of four from IBC.
   To continue to pursue the current situation, in which TC will only allow importation of vehicles with vehicle OEM installed Electronic Immobilizers, effectively means that almost ALL vehicles sold in the US that were manufactured after Sept 1 2007(even if they were made in Canada under the Auto Pact/NAFTA and shipped to the US), will NEVER be allowed, new or used, into Canada. This because with very few exceptions the CMVSS 114 equivalent OEM option is NOT available in the US, it is a Canadian only requirement.
   Continued pursuit of this policy has TC being perceived as “protecting” Auto Manufacturer’s profits, where those same manufacturers charge significantly more in Canada, than for the same equivalent unit in the US, in a market where the value of the dollar is approximately equivalent.
   The current actions and policies of TC have effectively “killed” the auto trade, between the US to Canada, new or used, of almost ALL post Sept 1 2007 manufactured US car models, because, currently, TC will not allow the use of After Market CMVSS 114/CAN/ULC-S338-98 compliant products. This is a “restrictive” trade practice that just might awake the “sleeping giant”.
   In conclusion, there does not need to be any “amnesty” for the 1000 to 3000 units caught in “limbo”. Simply allow, as is proper, for the use of “approved” after market products to comply with CMVSS 114.
   Governments should not be in the business of business!

   Yours sincerely;

   Rod Murray,
   45 Hidden Valley GateN.W.
   Calgary AB T3A 5M1
   403-230-7666 office
   403-969-1443 cell
   403-230-7675 Fax
   403-295-0155 home

2. Allan says:
   November 30th, 2007 at 3:06 pm

   Rod, you do realize that TC does allow the installation of aftermarket CMVSS compliant immobilizers. It is the manufacturers that have told TC after market devices CMVSS compliant or not cannot be installed on their vehicles