Understand what you are saying. Some don't mind choosing to pay a bit for convience. Let's say you lived in Ontario and made the choice to pay a bit for convience and traveled on the 407. But you were never billed for one of your trips until 5 years later...by that time they've racked up interest and late fee. Would you have a problem with that? Let's take it a step futher and say you get a bill, out of the blue for hundreds or even thousands of dollars. There's no details, just an amount. Are you entitled to know what they are trying to bill you for? If you then realize they gave you someone else's bill/account... would you just pay it because they said so? OR would you want justification for what they are charging you for? This issue is not about choice, it's about an abuse of power.
Here in Ontario, the 407 can put you in plate denial if you don't pay their bill. The government will honor their request to deny your sticker just because the 407 says so. They don't have to provide proof that the bill actually exists. Is that OK? The government is on record of knowing about the problems that the 407 has with it's billing, but yet isn't doing anything about it. This is a gross abuse of power and shouldn't be allowed in Canada. The government is not helpless here. I believe that they, as landlords, have a responsibility to do something if the public is being harmed by their tenant. They have to stop passing the buck and fix the mess they caused.
People will say it was this government or that government's fault. I say the point is that there's a problem and it is the government's responsibility to stop turning a blind eye to it and do something about it. At the very lease they can tell the 407 that they need to give it's customers full disclosure and deal with them instead of abusing the power the government gave them.
