Proposed regulatory charge (fee), Proposed pleasure craft charge (fee)

[Backroadsfishing]

Greetings,

So, I just found this. Has anyone posted this before or ever heard of the proposed change...Thought of paying an additional $25.00 every five years for owning a boat. If a pleasure craft is already licenced should it not be the owner who pays to pull it out of the water (that's what we do if your skidoo goes through the ice right..) just my two cents of how our government is always trying to nickel and dime us to death.


Licensing a pleasure craft

From: Transport Canada

We want to hear from you! Transport Canada proposes to introduce a regulatory charge that would be paid by vessel owners. This charge would finance a vessel remediation fund that would help the government to deal with abandoned, wrecked or hazardous vessels.

You can read the charge proposal and submit feedback online until November 9, 2021.

A Pleasure Craft Licence is a document with a unique licence number for a pleasure craft. The number serves as identification for the vessel and allows search and rescue personnel to access important information in an emergency. No fee is required to get this licence.

A vessel used for pleasure, recreation, or daily living is a pleasure craft.
Transport Canada is proposing the creation of a regulatory charge to finance a proposed Vessel Remediation Fund that would support measures to address wrecked, abandoned or hazardous vessels. This document describes the context, policy rationale and analyses that informed the proposed charge.

Related acts and regulations: Wrecked, Abandoned or Hazardous Vessels Act; Canada Shipping Act, 2001

6.1 Proposed pleasure craft charge (fee)

Based on the analyses described in 4.0 Cost analysis and 5.0 Pricing analysis above, TC proposes that pleasure craft owners pay a flat and fixed fee of $10 to be paid generally every five years, regardless of whether they are licensed or registered, which would generally be used as follows:

$7 to assess and/or address problem pleasure craft
$1 for preventative measures (e.g., public awareness of vessel owner responsibilities, research and development aimed at improving vessel recycling, increasing capacity at the local level, and vessel turn-in activities), which would primarily benefit pleasure craft owners
$2 to assess and/or address commercial vessels (i.e. supplemental support – see 6.1.1 below)

This fee would be paid when:

licensing or registering a pleasure craft for the first time
renewing a pleasure craft licence or registration certificate (every five years)
transferring a pleasure craft licence or certificate of registry (by the new owner)

No fee would be applied to a replacement licence or certificate of registry (due to loss or accident) or to any other PCL or Vessel Registry service.

The fee would be fixed and payable upfront at the same time (and in addition to) service fees for the aforementioned PCL and Vessel Registry services. In the case of licensed pleasure craft, this would be in addition to a proposed new PCL service fee of $15 for processing an application to obtain, renew (every five years), or transfer a PCL. The cumulative cost of the proposed regulatory charge and PCL service fee would be $25 every five years (or $5 annually).

As the proposed charge for pleasure craft would be considered low materiality under the Low-materiality Fees Regulations (Section 2.1(a)), it would not be subject to annual adjustment (e.g., Consumer Price Index indexation).[B]

Here is the link.
https://tc.canada.ca/en/marine-transportati...-pleasure-craft

[Fisherman]

So it would appear that any of the unregistered vessels, ie, under 10 hp, canoes, kayaks, etc get away without paying. If it did come to pass, why make us pay on a renewal every so often, 5-10 years, they already know who owns it. Just another government grab.

[Limacharley]

taxes, taxes, taxes

[Backroadsfishing]

It just burns my butt, that they want to change the Pleasure craft licence to a 5 years and not a lifetime licence.

Can we even stop this???

Here are some additional proposed changes.

Proposed Changes

We’d like to make changes to the pleasure craft licensing process, including:

Bringing grandfathered pleasure craft licences (no expiry) into a five-year validity period
Reducing the ten year validity period for licences to five years. Upon applying for a new, renewal, or updated licences, the validity period will be reduced from 10 years to 5 years.
Expanding the application of the Small Vessel Regulations to include:
all pleasure craft equipped with motors of 10 horsepower (7.5 kilowatts) or more, including personal watercraft, which are principally maintained or operated in Canada; and
all pleasure craft (including all power-driven and sail-alone vessels) above 6 metres in length, with the exception of human-powered (e.g. kayak, canoe, dragon boats).
Reducing the timeframe for owners to notify of a name or address change from 90 days to 30 days, and specify 30 days for the buyer to notify of a sale or transfer of a vessel.
Allowing for the easier cancellation of pleasure craft licences. This gives Transport Canada the ability to cancel a licence if:
the holder of a lifetime PCL fails to apply;
a PCL holder fails to renew a PCL; or
a PCL holder wishes to remove their pleasure craft from service.

To learn more read section 8 of the pleasure craft licensing fee proposal(External link).

[Fozzy47]

One shouldn't really be surprised at this, as all levels of Gov't have have been doing it for yrs..

Here are two examples of Gov't grabs.

1) I've recently read the HOV lanes will soon be accessed by drivers (regardless of how many are in the car) providing they pay an annual fee... so much for the environmental component to it. If you're wealthy enough to afford it, you can use it. It just another money grab.

2) Many yrs go now, the Conservative Provincial gov't at the time needed $3 billion to balance the budget in preparation for an upcoming election so they sold the #407 Hwy. Guess much they sold it for...yup, for $3 billion. We have suffered the effects of that sale ever since.
I'll never forgive them for that.
Now that was a major major grab.....at our expense. We waited for that desperately needed Hwy for over 20 years, then they sold it for political reason.....wow.

There are other examples too.....but since there is no way effective way to stop them.....so don't stress about it, won't do any good.
Adding $25 to an 5 yr boaters license is chump change comparatively speaking, but still a tax grab for sure.
Expect seniors being charged for fishing licenses in the near future, I've seen trial balloons on this one as well....lol.. All are tax grabs......

Cheers,

[jcraw]

Gotta find a way to recoup the money handed out for CERB.