City of Toronto going after unpaid tickets from the past

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City of Toronto has a stack of outstanding tickets dating back as far as 1990 and doing everything it can to collect their money. But instead they are collecting a lot of angry drivers.

Kevin Conway of Toronto received a notice from Canadian Bonded Credits Ltd. stating he owed $510 for unpaid tickets dating back to 1990. Hope Brake found herself in a similar situation when she discovered she owed money for tickets from 1991.

All this started in 2001 when the city hired collection agencies to collect any fines larger than $5000, after they were done with this project money hungry politicians decided to go ahead and keep collecting regardless of the amount of money owed. Yes, this means that if you have an outstanding fine from 15 years ago you're not "over the bridge" yet.

There is no bylaw at the moment which would "expire" these unpaid tickets. Councillor Rob Ford also said that these people who have outstanding tickets they should pay regardless of when the tickets were issued.

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Your Comments:
	From:	Kev (3/13/2007 5:54:29 PM)
	Comment:	Where has the city been for last 15-20 years. Were they sleeping? City of Toronto should be ashamed of admiting to doing nothing for last 15 years. Me as a business owner would never chase anyone after such a long period of time.

	From:	Marc B (3/13/2007 6:48:26 PM)
	Comment:	I had a ticket (7 years old), after collection agency harassed me for couple of weeks I demanded to see the ticket, had to go to court. I got to see the ticket, bits and pieces of information, the only thing they had was my name, no license plate or driver's license. I ended up paying the ticket anyway just to get the collection people off my back.

	From:	J. Anderton (8/10/2007 1:11:47 PM)
	Comment:	I am being hounded by the collection agency for unpaid parking tickets in my name. Unfortunately my ex-husband was the culprit. I will pay the fines and hopefully get the money back from my ex who insists I am just trying to get money out of him. This has just brought back bad memories. What else will resurface after so many years.

	From:	r.lopez (1/15/2008 7:48:47 PM)
	Comment:	I have received endless amount of phone calls from a collection agency stating that I owe $1600 in unpaid parking tickets. I no longer drive a car because my license was taken away due to my glaucoma. I do not intend to pay 1 cent back to the city. They should be embarrassed to ask for outstanding payments from 1991. why doesn’t the statue of limitations apply to them? Sounds like just another cash grab from the city politicians

	From:	Brian in the lower 48 (6/9/2008 3:10:31 AM)
	Comment:	This is to all people that owe outstanding fines. Pay them. You broke the law, now you got to pay the piper for doing so. Your lucky you didn't have to pay before now.

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