AWARE Simcoe - Elect to Protect! - What is with the double billing?

Editorial Barrie Examiner April 15 2011

Something's wrong with a plan that bills motorists at accident scenes when firefighters attend.

This practice is happening in many Ontario municipalities and on major provincial highways, and is about to be renewed in Barrie after a relatively brief pause. It will allow the fire department to charge $410 per truck, per hour when attending a crash on city streets, in accordance with Ontario transportation ministry (MTO) rates.

Comments (1)

|2011-04-21 10:19:29 Storm Chaser - See through the smoke

I guess it's easy to raise alarms when the fire dept send you a bill, but the reality is a user pay system is not new. We all pay a user fee when we go to the local pool, but I also paid for the pool services in my taxes! Why do we consider the fire user fee any different?

Let's not split hairs, see through the smoke people, users fees are common place.

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