Morning Gentlemen,

I wanted to contact your forum with some important news about the 15-year importation rule. The Canadian government is considering a change to a 25-year importation rule. This process has been building behind closed doors for the last year without public notice or consideration. We at IVOAC (Imported Vehicle Owners Association of Canada) (www.ivoac.ca) received information that the draft is completed and will be submitted for signature THIS SPRING. This is not rumor; this is fact.
If you own, want to own a 15-year old import OF ANY MAKE OR MODEL then this will affect you.
We at IVOAC have created a website FIGHTING this change. We have developed a 60+ page rebutting this attempt to change the rule. 3 weeks ago we started up the site and immediately caught the interest of the JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) importers. Our membership grew quickly to almost 200 persons.
This site will deal with all the latest confirmed information dealing with DOT/SAE issues, insurance concerns and of course fighting the change itself.
We strongly ask that you at least check out the site (www.ivoac.ca) and if you feel comfortable to join in the fight. Most of the conversations so far on the site are by the RHD community but the change will affect ALL persons that own or wish to own a 15-year old import from ANYWHERE (but the states). They have the power at this time to succeed but with your help we can stop this.
Please feel free to forward this to anyone you might think would be affected.

Cheers

Thanks William. I have been there and registered. I'm sure others will as well. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" /> We have to fight this as one... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/mrt.gif" alt="" />

Well said Phil. How is the Pajero treating you ?

I too am in and registered.

United we stand, divided we fall. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/angry.gif" alt="" />

the government takes anything they want. this is complete bull$hit. I will fight to the bitter end, I hate the government. whenever they want something they just take it.

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That is really (3 times) bad.

Could you gather around you all RHD importers, they can easy reach their customers and customers can involve their friends and so on...?

Let us stay together for our rights to drive right cars! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

We have no choice to buy american/canadian 4x4 midsize diesil!

I just registered as well. I was going to say that I know from gun ownership that it's always a passive confiscation via grandfathering, but I forgot that the cops did go door-to-door in the early 90s collecting some legally-owned firearms the feds deemed NO-ONE could have. ZERO compensation offered. We need to get the Tories to enact the property laws they've been talking about.