Car licenses and drivers fees are increasing beginning September 1. And they will continue to go up over a two-year period. On Sunday, the present car registration will jump from $82 to $90 and then again in 2015 up to $108. The cost of renewing a drivers license will jump from $75 to $80. The increases are stiff and there is much grumbling but then we spend a lot in Ontario. These recommendations come from the so-called select report of Don Drummond, the retired economist hired by Dalton McGuinty to scare Ontarians and soften them up for fiscal restraint. The first thing Drummond recommended — and government instantly rejected — was the repeal of all-day kindergarten. Billions spent, billions in taxes. It’s all related.
