Comments on: CBers exempt? http://blog.rac.ca/?p=837 All about ham radio in Canada - Tous pour la radioamateur au Canada Sun, 12 May 2013 22:59:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lewis http://blog.rac.ca/?p=837&cpage=1#comment-9436 Lewis Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:30:17 +0000 http://racblog.wordpress.com/?p=837#comment-9436 Keith, i think your response is 100% correct. It should be published in our local newspaper (with your permission). I would also like to see an update regarding bill 118. Thank you Regards Lewis VE3QJ Keith,
i think your response is 100% correct.
It should be published in our local newspaper (with your permission).
I would also like to see an update regarding bill 118.
Thank you
Regards
Lewis
VE3QJ

]]> By: Keith http://blog.rac.ca/?p=837&cpage=1#comment-223 Keith Sun, 30 May 2010 23:13:16 +0000 http://racblog.wordpress.com/?p=837#comment-223 I'm still waiting for the first citation to be handed out against a ham based on all this foolishness. Once that happens, it seems to me that RAC can also greatly assist in this effort by making that information public so that some of us with deeper pockets might be able to help the "scofflaw" create a legal defense fund to fight it. I remain absolutely convinced there is a glaring, jurisdictional disconnect between the federal Radio Regulations and what the Ontario Minister of Transportation is attempting to impose on our federally-licensed, Amateur Radio Service. Clearly, the Ontario Ministry of Transportation has absolutely NO legal authority to regulate not only federal, but INTERNATIONAL law, particularly when the Ministry has seen fit to grant blanket exemptions to other, similarly licensed federally regulated radio services. This is BESIDES the fact that there is absolutely no credible evidence....NONE....that the use of amateur radio equipment in a moving vehicle creates a traffic hazard. This whole issue is just another case of blatant overreach by our provincial government. Indeed, in their myopic attempt to regulate a problem that doesn't exist, they have, in fact, created a glaring, federal-provincial jurisdictional disconnect in the process. I’m still waiting for the first citation to be handed out against a ham based on all this foolishness. Once that happens, it seems to me that RAC can also greatly assist in this effort by making that information public so that some of us with deeper pockets might be able to help the “scofflaw” create a legal defense fund to fight it.

I remain absolutely convinced there is a glaring, jurisdictional disconnect between the federal Radio Regulations and what the Ontario Minister of Transportation is attempting to impose on our federally-licensed, Amateur Radio Service.

Clearly, the Ontario Ministry of Transportation has absolutely NO legal authority to regulate not only federal, but INTERNATIONAL law, particularly when the Ministry has seen fit to grant blanket exemptions to other, similarly licensed federally regulated radio services.

This is BESIDES the fact that there is absolutely no credible evidence….NONE….that the use of amateur radio equipment in a moving vehicle creates a traffic hazard.

This whole issue is just another case of blatant overreach by our provincial government. Indeed, in their myopic attempt to regulate a problem that doesn’t exist, they have, in fact, created a glaring, federal-provincial jurisdictional disconnect in the process.

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