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OPINION * Canada - MTO bureaucracy gone mad
Sometimes government gets it wrong. Really wrong. No kidding, right?Toronto,ONT,CAN -Truck Stop Canada, by Marco Beghetto -30 Nov 2007: -- There are occasions when errors are inevitably part of the human condition. Other times, they're a symptom of bigger problems that infect an entire bloated, redundant system... Truckers who get pulled over by MTO inspectors at roadside can attest to both examples. Tire condition, for example, is a common irritant. Sure, a scale inspector can make an honest mistake in placing trucks out of service with tires that are actually within tolerance. But how often is that situation triggered by overzealousness -- a government worker trying to meet some real or perceived quota, perhaps? Who knows? You guys, more than me, for sure... With that in mind, I bring you today's news, in which a Peterborough, Ont. man was denied the renewal of his vanity plates because the MTO deemed them to be too "religious"... Sometimes MTO makes honest mistakes. Sometimes, though, it's about bureaucracy running amok... But just like that scale inspector who still idles you after he's shown that the crack is not an OOS violation after all; government hardly ever backs down when it's wrong...
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