An Ontario girl who hung up her self-importance licence plate 10 years in the past when she stopped driving stated she was confused to obtain a licence plate sticker refund cheque within the mail.
“Why am I getting one? I haven’t pushed in 10 years,” Carolyn Johnston of Whitby, Ont. advised CTV Information Toronto. “I do know it’s solely $110, nevertheless it’s the precept of the factor. I feel it’s very wasteful.”
A decade in the past, Johnston stated she misplaced imaginative and prescient in a single eye and determined it was time to cease driving and promote her automotive.
As soon as the automotive was gone, she took her self-importance licence plate, which had the letters “MAA NAA” printed on it as an ode to the title her grandchildren name her, and hung it within the basement.
However just lately, she acquired a letter from the province with a refund inside.
The province began refunding car homeowners earlier this yr for licence plate renewal charges paid since March 2020, however Johnston’s final renewal dates again to August 2009, which is labeled on the highest proper nook of her now decorative plate.
CTV Information Toronto has seen the cheque, which is dated April 2, and states “Licence Plate Sticker Refund.”
After CTV Information Toronto flagged the difficulty to the Ministry of Transportation, they stated they'd look into Johnston’s state of affairs.
They stated they weren't in a position to verify what occurred on this state of affairs for privateness causes, however added they'd attain out to her straight.
“Automobile homeowners will get again what they paid for individually-owned automobiles since March 2020. Refund quantities will differ relying on when plates had been final renewed and the way a lot was paid,” a spokesperson for the Ministry of Transportation stated.
Johnston stated she hasn’t cashed in her cheque. “My concern is that if I received one, what number of a whole bunch of individuals received them that don’t deserve them?”
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