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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

That's what I thought as well. I couldn't believe they'd suggested it.

But... as far as the DMV is concerned, at least, it would be a God send.

We have one DMV for about 250,000 people on the Avalon. It's not even in St. John's. And its hours are 9-4, Monday-Friday. You could not design a more annoying system.

In all other provinces, a city the size of St. John's would have many; in most, it'd have dozens. And they'd be open evenings and weekends.

In Manitoba, they have public car insurance but allow private companies to sell it. So even towns of a few thousand have three or four places you can go. And you can get everything in one stop - license, registration, and insurance. Takes 10 minutes.

Here, it kills half a day. And you miss work.

Was the same way in Alberta, not to mention I could go to Costco and purchase wine/spirits. I've been reading the comments that were posted online over past couple of days about this subject, and I have got to say the level of intelligence is almost nil. A lot of the comments had to be made by union workers trying to distill paranoia into the minds of Newfoundlanders, aside from education and healthcare privatize the whole lot.