The MTO provided funding to Traffic Injury Research Foundation, of 171 Nepean St., Suite 200, Ottawa , Ontario, to do a Meta-Analysis of Cognitive Screening Tools For Drivers 80 years old , or older.  But because the MTO can’t stand by the results, it posted a disclaimer, although it continues to force seniors into humiliating, unreliable testing at significant cost to the senior.     Continue reading Ontario Minister of Transportation: Can’t support the tests, but uses them to abuse senior drivers! →

Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia have instituted special testing of senior drivers based on the false pretences that ‘elderly drivers constitute a traffic risk’.  I  (the undersigned) have spent the last two years gathering statistics from Canada, United States, Europe and Australia.  All of the major statistics including the Provinces’ own statistics show that, year after year, SENIOR DRIVERS ARE THE SAFEST ON THE ROADS.

These Provinces have dismissed all major statistics.  In addition, they refuse to provide the statistics they relied upon when instituting this discriminatory practice.  However, once further research was done by the undersigned, it was learned that the 3 pilot studies done by the Ministry of Ontario (2 undertaken by in-house staff) were completed AFTER the harmful legislation was brought into force.

The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario is helpless because the Province of Ontario very conveniently exempted itself.  You have to wonder what happened to Canada when it’s Constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms no longer apply to the government itself.

Many senior drivers already have lost, and many more will lose, their licences by unfair and faulty testing.  8000 have lost their driver’s licences in Alberta alone.  Health Canada states that ‘when a senior loses his licence,  mobility, poor health, depression, alcoholism and suicide soon follow’.        Continue reading Senior Drivers Lose Human Rights: Discriminated Against By Three Provinces →