It's brutal trying to get anything moving to do with legislation. The OFSC has a great lobbyist, and the CEO is no slouch when comes to interacting with provincial and federal governments.  But with Lawyers running our Province and Country nothing will change unless they want it changed, and it's only changed if it's in their own best interest.

Permit numbers have nothing to do with the amount sold, they are sent out randomly at a specific run number. This is to combat counterfeit (mto) permits.    Its been indicated  that permit sales for the early bird, has been succesful.  

Kind of but the elinq is so limited since you have to buy a part for your sled, and that part only works with brp and it is only the connection to the sled.    This connexio cord has nothing to do with the sled.   and to be honest it is a better idea as sometimes I leave my sled running and can hop off and just disconnect the magnet which is really convenient to disconnect or reconnect where as elinq you have to shut your sled off if you leave, as it is the key as well.    I dont have elinq but just what I see. 

I agree with some re-writing of legislation Nutter. There is no teeth and no fear of anything anymore. I was in a meeting yesterday with some counsel over e-bikes, e-scooters etc. - there are big gaps in legislation with them - "changes" have been before legislature since early 2020 and have not moved - with zero indication anything will be done anytime soon. The gaps continue to exist, the problems continue, and that's how it will be in Ontario.      

Just to put things into perspective Current population of Ontario is 16 million people living within a 415,000 sq mi slice of land. The OPP has just over 5800 officers and 600 auxiliary officers. It's not hard to see why snowmobile permit enforcement priority is pretty low on the OPP's policing totem pole. In total there's 25,000 police officers when including municipal police forces, I would imagine only a handful of them are in sledding areas and equipped for snowmobile enforcement, and like the OPP they also have more pressing things to addend to.    My 2 cents .....    As for volunteer Trail Patrol and rebirthing STOP enforcement, people are cut from a very different cloth then they were 25-30 years ago. No volunteer should ever have to be in the chance of being in harms way enforcing sled permits.    2 or 3 Seasons ago there was 6 of us doing a hi hello wave stop on the rail trail between Fenelon and Kinmount at a wide spot with a road crossing on a super busy Sunday, 4 decent sized gents and 2 women. A group of 4 came through, the first 2 slowed enough to tell us to F Off, the other 2 veered at us while roosting us. That could gotten real ugly. Despite being decently late model big iron machines, not one of them was displaying a permit that we could see from either side of the trail. I have other stories of coming across tough guy chest pumpers out on the trail, but no need to get into those, we all know they now exist in greater numbers now and have little to no fear of repercussions.    IMO the trespass to property act has to be re-written within the Motor Snow Vehicle Act, it needs the fail to display permit charge attached to it with more meat to it then the broad stroke provincial trespass offence.  Increase the fine substantially and attach a mandatory 90 day impoundment of the machine being ridden.  Even with low enforcement, the chance of losing your ride for 90 days and paying $1500+ for the towing and impoundment, along with the fine, then the cost of getting home and picking up your sled after 90 days would likely change attitudes towards buying a permit and sticking it on the sled.      When the OFSC leadership in the mid to late 00's referred to the permit and trails as a product and treated it so, a lot of us saw the changes in rider mentality happen quickly.