Do you Have the Card?
All boaters in Canada must have a Pleasure Craft Operator Cardto operate a boat with a motor. Even someone driving a fishing boat with a small trolling motor or motorized dinghy must carry the card. If you are caught without it, you could be fined $250!
To obtain an Operator Card, one must learn some boating safety basics and regulations and then pass an exam – available online from BoaterExam.com. You can get a temporary card right away if you pass. The "card" is good for life. (Visiting boaters are exempt unless they boat in Canada for more than 45 days. Rentals have special rules.) For more information see Transport Canada's Office of Boating Safety. A summary can be found on Pat's Boating in Canada: Pleasure Craft Operator Card .
posted by Pat Drummond @ 3/17/2011
2 Comments:
Is it REALLY about the safety of just collect money? (The common government habit).
If it is about the safety then why indians don't need any boating card? Are they inherently safer as handed down to them by their ancestors? (the usual explanation for most everything) Or is the Great Raven guarding them?
Cheers, Ed
It is clearly about the money. If it was about safety you wouldn't be able to do the test online. I bet alot of people have a card and never wrote their own test. Typical government
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