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Dubé’s report traces in detail what can happen to people who err, try to make up for it, but get stymied by a system that just doesn’t give a damn. That’s what “systemic investigations” like these usually reveal.

Like the story of “Darcy,” from Carleton Place — identities are carefully scrubbed from reports like these — who got a speeding ticket in May 2012. She forgot to pay it, but eventually did a few months later. But in the interim her licence was suspended and even after she paid the fine it wasn’t reinstated because she didn’t realize she had to pay the $198 fee for that.

It wasn’t until she moved to Ottawa in 2016 and went to change the address on her licence that she discovered it was invalid. She’d been driving illegally, uninsured, for more than three years. Plus she had to start over as a brand-new driver, going through multiple tests and provisional-licence periods even though she’d been driving for 30 years.

“It cost her three days off work and hundreds of dollars in fees to regain her licence, all because of lapses in communication over a speeding ticket she had paid years earlier,” Dubé’s report says.

Or “Mike,” a Toronto driver who “made an illegal right-hand turn in Toronto in early 2011, while taking his mother, who was undergoing cancer treatment, to the hospital.” He got a ticket, which he meant to contest. But his mom died and he had other things on his mind.

His licence was suspended but while the notice was in the mail he got into a car accident and his insurance company wanted no part of the case because his insurance wasn’t valid. Mike got an extension and appealed his ticket and won, so then his insurance company defended him in the $1-million lawsuit he faced.