Ford promised to scrap licence plate sticker fees and refund two years of them
“Eliminating the fee to renew your licence plate and refunding the cost of doing so for the past two years is a concrete way we can put and keep more money in the pockets of hard-working Ontarians.”
Doug Ford, · News conference, Richmond Hill
What happened · Apr 28, 2022
Renewal fees for passenger vehicles, light trucks, motorcycles and mopeds ended on March 13, 2022, and refund cheques went out from late March through April 2022, as promised.
Bill 84 (the Fewer Fees, Better Services Act, 2022) passed on March 3, 2022 and gave the minister power to refund validation fees paid from March 1, 2020. Fees ended on March 13, 2022, and the April 28, 2022 budget confirmed cheques were mailed from the end of March through April. Owners with unpaid fines or tolls got no cheque until they paid (the offer ran until March 13, 2024), and business-owned vehicles got no refund. The budget shows vehicle and driver registration fee revenue falling from $1.95 billion in 2020-21 to $80 million in 2021-22 because of the elimination and rebate. Announced about 14 weeks before the June 2, 2022 election, it drew Green leader Mike Schreiner's label of a "billion-dollar election boondoggle".