So you are all upset with the RIV! They will not serve the Canadian Public. but appear to be in the pockets of the Car Manufacturers.
One way to get even is to buy some of their shares - LIV.un - and then go to the shareholders meeting and raise hell! Even 1 share entitles you to vote and attend the meeting. Maybe we should hold a CWB conference at the same local on the same day.
2008-01-29detailed-quotelivun.pdf chart.pdf
Another way is to sell their shares short! If enough of us do it together what would happen?
Today was an ex-dividend day, watch how the boys at Bay street drop the price over the next couple of weeks! They do this so they can buy it back at cheaper prices and take advantage of the monthly distributions!
Are Transport Canada employees allowed to buy shares in Liv.un? Would it be considered a conflict of interest? I wonder if Mr. Cannon owns any shares? Brian who you say?
Here is their 3rd Quarter report - do they mention the RIV revenues that are around 10% of their revenues?
What do our members think of this type of initiative? Should we make it a “forum” topic? Or should we just wait until TC or The RIV decides to answer our e-mails and provide us with answers to our questions?
After reading in late December that Transport Canada and the RIV, had taken all Volvos off the admissibility list and simply stated:
IMPORTANT: Volvo Canada has not provided information to TC on the admissibility of vehicles that are imported after January 1,2008. Effective January 1st, 2008, if you wish to import a U.S. compliant Volvo vehicle into Canada, you will have to contact Volvo Cars of Canada at 1-800-663-8255 to determine if the vehicle is admissible for importation, and to request the letter of admissibility required at the time of importation.
- I decided to go shopping!
- Last week I conducted my preliminary investigation using the Canadian and U.S. Volvo web sites. Results including, Fuel Surcharge, RIV fees, Inspection fees GST and PST are:
- Today I talked to Volvo Canada, a Volvo service department in the Montreal area concerning compliance letters, and two salesmen, one in Canada and the other in the U.S.
- I feel sorry for the folks working for the Canadian Volvo dealers; they are being set up for failure!
- Guess which dealer had the better incentives!
- Tune to this web site each day and find out the results of my spree! Tomorrow, find out what Volvo Canada had to say!
Currently 300-400 visits a day on the site. Peaks 1,600 in one day - total 42,000 visits.
372 Canadian cities - 372 cities PDF
56 Countries - 56 countries PDF
Mr. Turanovic gave us permission to reproduce emails of his extensive battle to get his 2008 Corvette plated in Canada - ref - Bumper problems. In this exchange of e-mails, P.O. Tremblay of Transport Canada, even admits that Transport Canada and the Canadian Public is at the mercy of GM. He admits that the Car Companies are running the show! When will Cannon wake up and change the law! When will Cannon just wake up!
CWB members can you help our friend?
Corvette in garage PDF
Response to Mr. Tremblay PDF
You will notice on the right side of our site a new form EcoAuto state your case. If you imported a qualifying car and would like to share your data we will tabulate the numbers and it will give us more power to deal with Transport Canada. This is not a petition - only those that have actually imported one of those hybrids or very high fuel efficiency cars. Example ( Prius, Camry Hybrid, Yaris, some Civics, etc)
