Editor:
Are we now living in a dictatorship? ICBC motor vehicle branch has devised a plan that forces 80-year-olds to pay a doctor from $75 to $400 to mark off boxes on a form listing tests that seniors are already doing with their doctors for free.
Eighty-year-olds can also randomly be targeted to go through cognitive testing. If they don’t comply with these demands, they can have their licence revoked, even if they have a fault-free record.
How dare they discriminate against an entire generation? I walk every day and read the paper every day and I never see stories about seniors running amok and causing accidents. Being in your 80s doesn’t make you stupid and careless.
What I do see, is younger drivers charged with speeding, driving while texting, drinking and vaping while driving, running into people in crosswalks, etc.
So, whatever their age, should their whole generation be penalized and monitored? Seniors are taking good care of themselves, living longer, seeing their doctors regularly, are mature and capable of running their own lives. The government does not need to control seniors and play doctor. This is not about health, it’s a blatant cash grab and an affront to people who cannot afford to throw money around needlessly.
This needs to be scrapped ASAP. Fight for your rights and independence through your MLA, media and parliament.
M. Debanou, White Rock
