An Apology to my Canadian Neighbors
I wanted to post this several days ago, but did not have computer access. And, the thread that this is directed to, has since been closed. I have met and got to know several folks from Canada, ...
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SoundGuy wrote:JaxDad wrote:
Oh and don't fret being a few mph off the exact speed, our police are pretty tolerant, other than places like school zones, etc, you won't get stopped for doing 2 or 3 mph over the limit. In fact here in Ontario there is no penalty for anything less than 10 mph over the limit and a few years back the then head of our Provincial police, our State Troopers, made a public statement that officers would not stop people on the highway unless they were doing 15+ mph over the limit as long as they were not driving dangerously, hopping lanes, tailgating, etc.
We've been metric here in Canada since the 1970s so I suspect you mean kph, not mph, particularly when referring to any public official who would always quote in metric. 15 mph over is ~ 24 kph over and should attract the attention of the gendarmes, ignoring of course the morons who consistently run 140+ kph on the 400 series under the assumption they're invincible and somehow exempt from any special attention. :R
I'm quite aware of all of that, I was born in, and have lived, most of my life in Canada.
I was being polite, responding to an American using terms they could more easily relate to.
Of course the head of our Provincial 'gendarmes', Julian Fantino, did also mention that the 'morons' who do 140 on the 400 series were not nearly as much of an issue as the 'geniuses' doing 105 in the left lane.
