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 may remember Sarah Oko from this report on GlobalTV Edmonton earlier this week. She purchased a GMC Sierra in the US, but Transport Canada’s bureaucrats will not let her register it in Canada because GM will not certify that its anti-theft device meets new Canadian standards.
Now, Sarah has discovered what appears to be a smoking gun:
I am happy to announce that I think we are flying to Michigan to pick up our truck next week. All of this hoopla is regarding an immobilizer device. We had the US dealer check our truck and give us that part number. For the GMC Sierra 2500HD Duramax the part #15845229 in case anyone needs to know. I have called my General Mortors dealership here in Canada, St Albert to be exact and they have confirmed that it is the same part number of the device here that is on its Canadian version of the truck.
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