Hidden cameras catch driving instructors cheating the system | Marketplace
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- Опубликовано: 7 мар 2024
- Driving schools are supposed to teach new motorists the rules of the road. But CBC Marketplace reveals many are willing to cheat the system by selling beginner driver education certificates to students who’ve had no actual training - putting public safety at risk, according to the Auditor General of Ontario.
The certificates make drivers eligible for insurance discounts and a road test sooner. But for less than half the cost, some driving schools are offering to file fraudulent paperwork saying drivers have completed 40 hours of training, without taking a single lesson.
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00:49 - Undercover with a hidden camera
12:40 - How the fraudulent driving-school scheme works
18:50 - What will the provincial government and insurance companies do about it?
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More of his type of investigative reporting is where our tax dollars should go to. Good job Marketplace!
You’re super clever! This is so much more important than healthcare, security and military. 😅 not a single cent of tax dollars should be going to this biased propaganda outlet
To making our driving exams harder
Doesn’t help. It’s not like police arnt aware of this and most industry stakeholders. Fact is no one is actually doing anything about it.
It's the government set-up this idiotic system using your tax dollar.
It's just idiotic "training".
You still have to go & pass the written & the drive test with the Ministry of Transportation!!
So it's just an idiotic training to make people to pay extra $750.
CONservatives wouldn't like that tho lol
That driving instructor needs to have his licence revoked. Pure scammer behaviour
Uhh he threatened someone's life, licensing is the least concern here.
They come to our country and do this shady stuff.
umm, these drivers still need to go to the government and pass a driving test. The government are the real scammers that allow these bad drivers a license
Never hate the player, always the game
@@casanova1012I can hate both.
No wonder Brampton is notorious for its reputation.
Surrey not far behind now
@@Kyumillithey automatically pass the driver test their own people
@@Kyumilliit’s the exact same, just on the west coast
Same as on-line scammers in India😂
Right…Crime city Brampton
He sat for an hour sent threats...and no one calls the police? Thats odd
His in the wrong field, his more of an debt collector 2 me
and a follow up "threatening text" was sent
report to police already!
Because they investigators were not being totally legit either and knew it. That is how they trick people for these videos only you don't see that bit on the video. it's edited out.
They pretend to be illiterate immigrants just arrived in the area ....
Why even blur his face. Let the public see this criminal
you think the police actually do anything?
No wonder there are so many terrible drivers.
Can say with certainty that Edmonton has gotten a metric sh*t ton of terrible new drivers over the course of the past few years in particular. The past 2-3 years especially!
These people still need to pass their driving test. As Puneet mentioned, one client came to him after failing this test. Definitely a scam on the insurance companies (and I’m sure, as a result, the general public) though.
My experience is that nobody in Ontario seems to understand the traffic flow at four way stops, or enough people don't understand that it's regularly chaotic. And on highways they're more concerned about waiving thank you a to each other than they are about giving and taking right of way.
Meh, I don't think this is really the cause. It's more due to lack of enforcement. hWhen I first started driving, I was sooo worried that I'd make a small mistake and get a fine or lose my license. But now I realize that's a joke! There are hardly any cops out there enforcing the rules...
in Ontario, government instructors have also been taking money to pass people, been happening for decades. @@L21458
You should investigate how immigration officers approve visas and permanent residencies. That is just scratching the surface.
truth
@@iringa77 yep he doesn't...according to him , all non-whites are bad drivers
When countries such as Australia and Canada get 90% of their migrants from very corrupt countries for many years why would anyone be surprised that the corruption level increases. This is particularly prevalent in areas in which education and employment are conditions for residency. Both Australia and Canada have steadily been dropping down the Perceived Corruption Index.
You should watch less right wing media and stick to living in the real world 🤷♂️
There is effective pharmaceutical and behavioral therapy for attention deficit disorder. It can't completely cure the dramatic dysfunction you're exhibiting with such an irrelevant comment, but it can help.
The bigotry causing your obsession with immigrants is a deeper moral/psychological issue.
Immigration is not diverse anymore. Accepting massive numbers from select countries where corruption and fraud is a normal way of conducting business makes it difficult for our society to overpower such trends.
Yeah those birds are a real problem, gotta stop them coming over from the other parking lots or it's going to be anarchy
@@LylatR socialist detected..
So true and so sad.
@@petesmitt They're birds, Pete. Birds.
I agree. Sadly it does not augur well for people coming from these countries like me who like to obey the law and paints us all in a bad picture. I am an ACZ license holder for more than 13 years with a faultless record and am also a driver Instructor of Trucking at Metro Truck Driving school in Mississauga, and sadly face this scenario everyday, when I see a new driver failing to pass the test because they have been schooled wrong with a Turbanator company, which is coming up like Hydra.
The only reason why the transport ministry is refusing to meet is because he's definitely in on it and taking a cut
Or doesn't want to be accused of racism.
@@goldenretriever6261 racism? Do you know how many Indian driving schools are out there.
The gov loves anything and everything they get a kick back on tax tax tax
Was the "Driving Instructor"charged with making threats, as well as the other illegal behaviour?
Yeah, the speech and behaviour not acceptable. He's supposed to be detained for what he said and what he did in that video.
If it's a credible threat then yes afaik.
No it's Canada he would never be charged he's not white he's part of the regime that the government has set up to destroy Canada
80k fine and life in prison?
500$ fine and 80 hrs of community service. It was his first time getting caught
Disgusting way of cheating the system.
And you wonder why semi trucks are smashing into school buses.
Dude, you still have to take the written & drive test with the Ministry of Transportation.
And Semi Trucks!?
It's a totally different license.
@@RobertRitchie-re5pt yes, and taking out bridges, getting stuck in the toll booth, and the list goes on and on!!!!
Guys, it's not mandatory!!!
They just do it to rip off the poor & immigrants & international students....
Do you believe you will be able to drive, or even pass the Ministry Test after 10 hours?
To play a Driving game on a computer takes longer.
To learn to drive in GTA 5 takes longer!!
Btw,
I don't think you know what Semi Truck means.
It takes years to be able just to park.
@@bestdjaf7499 still the same way, a bag of money and you're good
At a driving school in Brampton my sister went to, she saw a father secretly giving an instructor a wad of cash and he handed over a document. My sister reported it to the woman at the desk in which she stated if you have no proof theres nothing we can do, my sister said they could check the cameras and the woman laughed. Sick of living here!
Which location?
Start making everyone nervous. They will stop
Your sister needs to mind her own business.
@@breakfasttelevision4261yes, we should all mind our own business until someone with an illegitimate license kills one of your loved ones then it matters.
It’s really awful, because there is a stereotype here in the US that foreign drivers particularly from these backgrounds are TERRIBLE drivers and it’s obvious there’s a reason for this.
Move to india
@@jaac7027No licence required?
I was a professional driver for over 30 years. When I retired, I took my training to be an instructor and I lasted 2 years before I walked away in disgust. Stuff like this is a big part of the reason why but to be frank, so was the clientele who were expecting it or the ones who thought they were entitled to a certificate just for paying the fees and putting in the time but not achieving the required results. The entire driver training system is a shambles.
It's a huge money racket. I got yelled at by the company owner for teaching students how to parallel park.
Trudeau brought them, now they are taking control of Canadá, soon canadians will be a minority
Colonization
We can see that with a steep increase in terrible driving.
What a joke , I'm on the road all the time 90% of drivers don't know the rules of the road !
Especially the new transport truck drivers. They just sit in the middle lane even when the right lane is empty. I doubt they know that they're supposed to get over to the right because of "training" like this video shows.
@@mii2oo150 They are the worst.
The guy in the white Toyota should be arrested and go to jail right away !
Trudeau will make him a liberal voter
and then sent back to wherever TF he came from!!!!!
@@beachydee854Nope. Tudy will give him citizenship and let him become a liberal voter.
@@Daniel-pl3bd no doubt! disgusting what is happening to our country.
He's not even from around here. Surprise.
Absolutely disgraceful!! These people should be arrested.
And deported
Who's going to arrest them?? They are in the system they are everywhere
Welcome to India, Canada. I wonder how many of these scammers are actually citizens.
How do you know he is indian?
@@kulathungasai967 accent
Finally! Thank CBC NEWS! You finally found the cause of this issue in Ontario. The road is filled with drivers causing so much road rage because they don’t know how to drive and it leads to accidents and deaths.
it's not road rage, it's the quality of driver that we're *importing*
@@FurnishedIgloo it’s not fair to say we are importing. Some people around the world are fine drivers. We just have to stop bad people who are trying to undermine Canada! They need to be stopped! They need to be exposed!
People who obtain their license at 16/17 PROPERLY and have been driving for a long time pick up a ton of bad habits too. Trust me. Its not just the people who dont know what they are doing. Having decades of experience by the age of 40 and being very skilled is also scary to other drivers because you dont realize they are skilled. You are just angry he or she cut you off and make assumptions based on that
Wow I thought our joke about Vancouver being the place that has the worst drivers in Canada, was correct 😅!
But it looks like Ontario is a good contender.
In my opinion the real issue is the lack of enforcement.
If you make someone pay a heavy fine for illegally changing lanes, or driving in the bus lane etc...
Add temporarily suspend the license of those who drive unsafely, people will suddenly obey the rules and even if they don't know them, they will be forced to learn.
But no one has the will to do proper enforcement, I had a quick conversation with a traffic police officer only to realize that they cannot rely on photos or videos that come from dash cams for enforcement and fines (although they can use this in investigating accidents)
But for enforcing the law and issuing tickets they need to catch the perpetrator directly.
Which is harder and we will need a police officer for every 10 drivers 😂.
It will be much easier to rely on cam footage, provinces can have a deal with their public transportation companies to ask their transit operators to tag any infraction they see on the road, this takes a second to click a button.
Then the company can provide this cam footage of the infraction to the police.
Buses have at least 4 cameras each and record 24/7, tagging provides a 6 minutes bookmark that covers 3 minutes before the driver clicked the button and 3 minutes after.
We have more buses on the roads at any given hour, than police cars.
While I was a shipper receiver, this was a well-known thing.The truck drivers used to tell me about it themselves. I was told they give the guy a certain amount of money and he goes and does the license for them. This guy is from India and I asked him.What about the picture on the license. He said we all look the same.Nobody notices they get a new picture in a couple of years. So I imagine there's people doing that with G license as well. I was even told even if they were in trouble before in their country.They come here, no criminal record anymore.Fresh start. Something that people were born in Canada.Don't even get for free.
And have a clean credit score & afford all the housing🥸
That's not true. You have to get a police clearance certificate for every country you've lived in for a significant period of time when you attempt to immigrate. And this is done through the consulate, which means its not easy to bribe your way out if you have significant cases against you.
The same applies for education. For every person complaining Canada will not acknowledge their academic credentials, there's 10 who will actively admitted they bribed their way and cheated their way through school.
@@Dingdong-vo3vlnot if you’re coming here illegally. They do,everything else illegally, you think they will come here the proper way?
@@jenkins5265 It is almost impossible to enter Canada illegally. Anyone coming in will have to pass through the states and people who have already reached there would stay there. There aren't any boats either. The only way people come to Canada is via the airports, so they all have their paperwork in order.
This explains why I've recently seen so many drivers driving the wrong way on the road!
My daughter worked so hard to obtain a certificate and then we have these people doing all forms of shortcuts
What is worse is that this kind of scheme happens in the trucking industry as well. A lot of bad truck drivers are out there that got their licenses in a similar way. A lot of trucking accidents have happened where people have been seriously injured or killed, because novice truck drivers got their licenses without the proper ligitamit training and testing to obtain it.
Exactly! Take a trip down the 401 and watch how many new transport drivers won't use the right hand lane because they don't know how to merge. Scary!
This is something we all knew was happening but could do nothing about. We all see the results of this on the road. This is our Canada ladies and gentlemen.
So true.
I feel you
Pana pa more
Don't feel safe on the roads now. All these drivers that have no experience.
When I took driver's ed in 99 this is what I was taught to always be aware and assertive because you never know how safe the other drivers are. That's actually a part of driver training with certified driver schools.
In one day last winter, I witnessed 1 male and 2 female Indian drivers in the ditch (401) on morning commute, and 2 male Indian drivers in the ditch (403) on the way home- one flipped a UPS truck 80 yards shy of an off-ramp, the other jack-knifing a semi- in the median. Don't draw your own conclusions though- that is 'illegal' by some perverted metric.
@@odochartaighofodonegal2351They have no concept of defensive driving..if they see an open lane that gives them full authority to speed and not drive to the conditions. If you listen to the news everyday always something on the 410, in and out of Brampton. Don't know why opp have no patrols on that hwy, it's a wild West
@@mariposavioleta9007 It helps very little in reality. You can't do anything about someone who rear ends you at a red light, who runs a red light and t-bones you, or who drives 20kms under the speed limit always creating a congested lineup of vehicles. Insurance rates should be earned with those in multiple accidents paying rates so high that they can't afford to drive and unlicensed drivers be jailed. Enforcement solves most things.
@@mariposavioleta9007 well that guy clearly didnt go to driving school. Its not mandatory anyway in all but 4 provinces.
i waited 2 years, spent 80 hours behind the wheel, spent almost $1000 on driving schools, lessons, rental cars with instructors and booklets, and after 2 failed drive tests i finally got my G2 then eventually my G.. but some random guy with money can spend a few bucks to skip all of that then jump on the road like nothing happened... Life is not fair.
I’m sure you are a much better driver than those people
i feel you. i failed 2 road tests in 9 years ago that costed me over $200 and these guys take the easy way out.
Their cheating themselves.
@@reamebjp you fail if the instructor doesnt feel like you checked your blindspots enough, so to pass i wore a baseball cap so that the examiner could see when my head turned
I failed three times, should be taking fourth test soon. Paid over $1500 in total just to learn. I will pass my fourth test.
Why is that guy NOT in jail? You need to press charges! What has become of Canada?
You should Expose these guys. They should be charged with a crime.
How I got my license this way stop crying work for me
I wonder if they will be charged.
@@lshep9728 hope not
@@lshep9728 no they won't and that is what's wrong, they got here scamming us and they keep doing it
They do the exact same thing for commercial drivers. Then we get the Hitting of overpasses in Vancouver. should be a lifetime ban and 10k fine.
Do you have a CDL? You seem to know a lot to make that claim.
@@gchsbusdon’t need to have a CDL to know these “arrive and drive” employees are killing or injuring Canadians at a much higher rate. Just ask the families of the Humboldt Hockey team or Olympic skater Alexander Paul?
@@crazyralph6386to strengthen your claim, I was in a situation where an owner of a transport company was gloating how his son in law came to Canada yesterday and today he is driving semi making more money than me
@@gchsbus I have CDL and yes sir this is pretty common. Are you one of those Indians who sells CDL ?
@@strangeprotocol5435 No. Just a CDL holder that knows there are good drivers and bad drivers on the road. Drivers who do their pretrips and drivers that don't. However, my previous point was, people who don't have CDLs and no experience in the field should not be making opinions or decisions on penalties for drivers.
The transport minister, instructors, and scammers all hail from India... quite remarkable.
Yup
Can't just be a coincidence can it?
They’re bringing their bad behavior here and getting the system compromised
Most violent scammers! So sad.
Oh man… I have to go pay my taxes through iTunes gift cards.
Next, investigate how people forge income documents for mortgage purposes.
Seriously I remember my roommate from foreign country X. He was proud he lied on his housing application in res so they thought he was Canadian and asked to not be in multi cultural housing. I loved the guy like a brother, he actively did everything he could to adapt to our culture, but even he had his moments.
@@dixonhill1108don't blame people. Blame our gov who allows this all.
They’ve already did one of these investigations. I think it’s on either this channel or “Fifth Estate”
It is long overdue. I am willing to go undercover
This kinda stuff is commonplace in many other developing countries and it comes as no surprise to me that’s it’s so prevalent in Ontario.
Yep. When the quality of life declines, people are more inclined to cut corners. Canada is falling back to developing country status. People just don't have enough money.
In the 90s I did the course through The Young Drivers of Canada. Totally worth it. Precise in-car, intense in-classroom education. It was basically a defensive driving course. It is so frustrating to see other drivers on the road breaking the most basic of driving rules, like leaving space around your vehicle (if you do, other drivers will squeeze into that space, so you fall back to leave space, and another driver will squeeze into _that_ space), signalling, checking mirrors and blind spots, coasting instead of slamming on the brakes, etc...
Young Drivers even taught parking skills, like; if you're parking on a hill, turn your wheels in towards the curb; if your parking brake fails, the car can roll no further than a few inches until the wheels bump the curb. The City of Toronto doesn't know how to drive or park, either, because of you use said trick to avoid calamity while parking on a hill, you will get parking ticket for not having your wheels parallel to the curb. Ignorance!
Going through a good, accredited driving school course should be the only way you can get a driver's licence. If it were the only way, the increased demand would bring down the cost, and ensure that most of the drivers on Canada's road are skilled...resulting in fewer motor vehicle accidents, resulting in lower healthcare costs...the benefits go on and on.
I did as well but with AAMCO. I hated the in class but powered through it in summer. Driving instructor was a gem.
Citation needed that the City of Toronto has by-laws against parking appropriately on hills. That sounds like something you just made up.
@@thomaswillard6267 "Wheels not parallel to the curb". Not made up, but not applicable to my situation (parked on a hill in a residential neighbourhood, NOT on the side of a highway).
My driving instructor was part of that!
Not anymore. Young Drivers is no longer managed by the founder. It's a shame of a school and I wouldn't be surprised if some of these instructors are from there...
I’m so tired of all this scam stuff. It’s out of control
Judging by some of the drivers I see and the way they cut people off, tailgate and go through red lights this confirms what I suspected all along.
Told my partner that tons of the crazies in our part of our city are buying licenses/defrauding the licence process... She didn't believe me. Now she will.
Your business partner? Don’t refer to your significant other as partner.
@@xeero24 I haven't heard of this. How is "partner" inappropriate for a ... romantic partner? And how is, the still bizarre, "significant other" better?
@@xeero24 okay.....
@@WeTubule right it's a casual expression.
@@xeero24 I don't get why this bothers you. It's a common term that people use all the time.
Cbc should investigate if the minister is getting a kick back.
The minister did not care -his face expresion was no F's givin
Most likely---or his friends or relatives are in the business!
You don't need kickbacks to not care. Simply not doing your job is easier than doing it. Making up BS about saying you will fix it, hopefully makes people happy and assume you listened.
Why do you think Trudeau is so unbelievably bad at his job. You think they let a Nazis in parliament just because? Trudeau and his people will take money from any special interest group. Our Deputy Prime Minister Journalist Christa Freeland's grandfather was also a journalist named Michael Chomiak, her grandfather famously ran a nazis newspaper promoting the success of the same SS group that was applauded in our parliament. You can't make this stuff up. 3rd world leadership.
Well it is a Doug Ford government, so yes there is a kickback
Why didn't you call the police on the first guy and uncensor his face for all to know?
Straight to jail!
They wana protect trudeau's little buddies
investigate brampton drivetest centers
😂 the pigeons pilling onto the scammers car
Poetic justice! Lol
They smell bullshit
These pigeons know a dirt bag when they see one.
Pigeons are among the most intelligent of birds. Today they gave us some justice lol
Um anyone from arabic countries love pigeons birds they think it’s good luck
Stuff like this happens all the time in poorer countries famous for scams! Brought that over to Canada! Shame!
@schrempskynate8944 the lady in this video said she's been doing this illegally for about 15 years. Trudeau came into office November 2015 (less than 9 years). Are you going to thank Harper as well?
@@Littleone124ah see its all akchewally harpers fault that that woman- literally the only one in Canada- gamed the system
*damn you Harper will your curse never lift!!!*
@@Littleone124when Trudeau took office, we all feel and know that Canada become worst with all the scams modus and illegal people coming here. He brought people without any papers. How's that from Harper?🙄
@@Littleone124 ah yes tax free paid in cash. Harper would know right? Use your head genius
@@Littleone124 You can thank liberal immigration for that (liberals).
All driver training should be handled by the province. Enough of this private bs. Far too many ppl are driving on our roads with absolutely no fking clue what they're doung.
This explains what everyone sees with new Canadians in traffic.
CBC went with a legit Punjabi instructor to show all of Canada that not all Indian instructors are scammers. Well done CBC!
CBC found the needle in the haystack... 👏
They are the 😊biggest scammers
Although as an instructor, you would think he wouldn't have illegal tint on his windows.
I haven't seen a white dude as a driving instructor in ages. It's all Indian Punjabi people.
Would have been too time consuming and expensive to find an instructor who wasn't Indian
The government should put into law, that driving schools should have to summit video supporting the individual drivers course to the insurance provider. Make them put cameras in the cars and classes
My husband teaches in a different province and all in car lessons are recorded. I'm surprised this wouldn't be a requirement in Ontario already when they already had to move to à digital platform to try to under-cut fraud.
@@WhatdoesthisboxdoBecause Drivetest doesn't allow us to record inside the vehicle.
BRAMPTON !!!!!! Brampton needs to be investigated
I live in a small town and every time I drive to the GTA to visit my family I am appalled by the drivers risky behaviour and lack of patience
Airport road is bad. People risk their lives to overtake.
Let me guess. A lot of these cheaters get them so they can drive Uber or delivery gig sooner. Making our road more erratic on a constant basis. While paying lower insurance while racking up everyone else’s.
90% dont have insurance
@@SavingPrivateRy Sadly I have to agree with you. Soon we'll be more like the US where hit-and-run accidents are just considered normal.
Seriously I have to look into their windows half the time to check which side of the car their steering wheel is.
This essentially makes BDE certificates meaningless, thus worthless. Insurance companies are going to stop giving discounts for them if they're smart.
I work for a major insurer and we have stopped giving them
@@ghostbusterstony7317Cap, I am a driving instructor and have yet to find any company that doesn't provide insurance discounts for a novice driver with a BDE certification.
But not fair for those who took course legally. The good pay for the bad again 😢
@@raymondgagne8363well, there’s no consequences anymore if you do anything bad. No jail, no fines, no deportation. It’s a free for all.
@@ghostbusterstony7317right probably punishing people that are doing it the right way , that's what the issue is
How hard is it to actually get the training and pass the road test anyway? What does citizenry meant to these people who cheated? An absolute insult to our society.
It isn’t easy finding a good instructor. Even getting a class at my old driving school was hard at points
This explains Brampton drivers 💯
I had no idea. This is good CBC. More like this.
Richmond,BC decades ago, busted again and again
They're obviously terrified of PP. They have to prove they're more than just Liberal Party propaganda. A good hint is they now allow us to make comments again. Almost as if refusing to let us speak, makes us feel like we should refuse to pay their salaries. Who'd think people would want to support the CBC if it was actually a news organization,.
An no wonder that our insurance rates in Ontario are sky high these unqualified people keep runnung into us.
Funny how it's all foreigners who are selling these certificates.
No one is really surprised though are they! Import the 3rd world, become the 3rd world.
Not the least bit surprising tho
Import desperate people from get-rich-quick scam countries, don't make surprised pikachu faces when homegrown get-rich-quick scams skyrocket.
"they're not sending their best"
not just foreigners but indians specifically. Canada is overrun with them. while most right wingers make dramatic fuss about middle eastern 'mass immigration', actual indian mass immigration is happening right under their nose in Canada and the result won't be pretty
Absolutely ridiculous, so many new drivers trying to operate vehicles absolutely without proper training. We as Canadians and a specially in province of Quebec must tighten driver's license issuing process to save lives and prevent property damages . Thank you Marketplace !
in quebec the prices for these lessons then to get your license for young people are outrageous. I payed 1000$ for classes to then pay for my license , car , insurance etc etc. at 16-18 without parents helping is really horrible so people will find ways to cheat it.
@@pierrezzz7 The major problem in Quebec in regards to SAAQ is that many newcomers are permitted to have their country driver's license simply exchanged to Quebec one with very minimal requirements ( kind of fast track) and then we have roads clogged with totally incompetent drivers to our Canadian standard of traffic rules obedience .
And the second major issue is that many vehicles are barely fit to be on the road as uniquely Quebec has no annual automotive road safety inspections .So to make vehicles road operations safer SAAQ must introduce annual car safety inspections same as in other Canadian provinces and make annual road licence plates cost not 250$ but more like 700$ per year so it is clearer that being a driver you also must be a financially responsible adult.
Only in Canada where the worlds worst absolute drivers come here, start driving schools and drive semi’s and that’s ok….
Not just Canada. So stop with the lies.
You haven't been anywhere have you? :D
I think is why we have such bad drivers.
Canada has a ton of terrible drivers, but all you gotta do is go south of the border or anywhere in Asia. That is where you will see true chaos. Anyway these instructors need to jailed
It's happening in all of the anglo countries and it's the same people scamming the system , 3rd worlders.
Why hasn’t anyone covered the DriveTest centres being run by a private company?
A private non Canadian company doesn’t need to be running it. The government needs to be doing all
Do away with meaningless requirements. Make the road-tests so hard that without knowing everything they need to know they aren’t getting anywhere near a license.
The issue lies with the province. They need to make training lessons mandatory. Then they can prosecute these scammers. This country needs to seriously get on top of things.
We need a lot more Market place to keep up with al the new scams. Your going to need to hire half a million reporters to keep up.
I will forever be thankful for all you've done, looking into things deeper, for all Canadians, Marketplace. Thank you! I love Marketplace so much. CBC's best arm.
I was taught in 2012 when I was 17 by Young Drivers of Canada and my father, who's a professional truck driver since 1993. I learned pretty well and still use the skills today.
But, seeing private instructors and certain driving schools literally cheating people out of proper driving lessons and rules, it's disturbing. I've never been in an accident or pulled over in the entire time I've been driving (11+ years) and I hope it stays that way. But, it scares me that a driver who wasn't taught correctly will hurt someone, or worse.
Hate to break it too you, but the founder of the company left and the school went horribly downhill... Notice how this "good" driving school is not Young Drivers?...🤔
No wonder why there are so many catastrophic accidents with truckers in Canada! Hitting overpasses and killing people!
Just like the Humboldt accident. There needs to be an investigation on how that truck driver got his license.
There was...watch the fifth estate @@iamamanduh
This is the most Comprehensive Investigation Marketplace has ever Done. So questions need to be addressed ! And the first one that comes to me is .How Many Lives have been lost and how many People have had Life changing Injuries and How many Deaths can be contributed to Unqualified Drivers who have Basically paid Money to Circumvent the Process of getting a Legal Drivers License . This Investigation Highlighted the built in Complacency of the MTO and the Lack of Accountability from the People we pay as Tax Payers to Insure that they are doing everything in their power to Insure that every Driver is Qualified as a Safe Driver on our Roads and of course it looks like its another Failure on the part of the People we pay as Tax Payers But Its time to stop the Unqualified Drivers from creating Mayhem on our Roads. Marketplace needs to do a follow up Investigation ,I feel they only touched on the Top of the Ice Berg
The high insurance rates in Ontario for no reason for decades is the main reason why people are doing these shortcuts. How about catching the insurance companies?
Does it actually give a discount on insurance? Maybe for the first few years but hasn’t made a difference when I’ve moved to new companies.
@@RobertSimeonThere is an insurance discount for newly licensed drivers. After a few years I suppose the benefit fades.
High insurance rates are because if lousy drivers. I'm doing 105 on the highway and I often see an Audi, BMW, Lexus or other expensive car drive by at 150+ (enough to make my Kia sway a little), weaving in and out of heavy traffic all the time. I want limiters put on cars like they do on trucks in Ontario. 110 -115 KPH max.
The insurance companies don't care!--Imagine a world where everyone knows how to drive and the are very few accidents--the insurance fees would have to come down substantially!--The insurance middlemen all get commission--no incentive to reduce rates there!
@@jamesryan7684 That's not the answer. That is slow on many parts of highways where there is little traffic. Traffic fines should be based on income. Many driving premium vehicles thumb their nose at minimal fines and driving without a license.
This makes more sense why Brampton has these issues
This has been happening for years, CBC just clued in now?? Bravo!!!
Better late than never!!
I still don't get if they're doing criminal activities why blur there faces.
I know. Name and shame right.
Oftentimes these schemes involve a lot of coercion from criminal organizations, so blurring these faces helps protect against retaliation. We can only pray justice will come.
Despite getting public funding, the CBC is also a commercial venture. You can't record and use audio or video of a person in a commercial venture without their permission. There's also some privacy laws that probably apply.
@@Tempus64 Sure you can. Especially news orgs.
@@schrempskynate8944 I should have been more specific about "recording" and then subsequently broadcasting it. He specifically asked why they blurred their faces and it's because of a variety of laws, mainly the privacy one. At the end of the day, the CBC has a lot of lawyers and I'm sure they've gone over this many times and so they know what they can and cannot do and what they maybe could do but don't want to waste time having to fight about things in court when they can just blur the peoples faces.
You know I believe this!! The driving I see currently is ridiculous!
I mentioned that 40 years ago after I witnessed a translator giving the answers to the driving test, the translator is also allowed in the car during the road test. The Translator also get paid plus the "50$ tip" from the new driver. 10 to 15 tests a day can be lucrative.
This is rampant in Brampton
Yep, I wonder why 🙄
I always smell something fishy 🐟specifically in Brampton how some people are driven is scary
Transport minister probably has family that owns some of these driving schools. He’s just speaking in circles….he knows what’s going on,he just chooses to ignore it because of $$$$$
LOVE ALL THOSE drive trainer Canadian Accents 😂😂😂
This explains the rise in accidents!
Make it a federal criminal offense to partake in the buying or selling of such services. Then be barred from participating in any employment which is related to the driver training or certification for life, including consulting for any related fields. Many professional and casual drivers have witnessed drivers who have no business being on the road. A driver of a vehicle that does not know the effect of their actions on others, it can be catastrophic. I have witnessed the effects of someone cutting off a tractor trailer, was glad I wasn't the one who had to live with that memory.
They will just keep starting new companies, using various family and friends names.
If the government knows this is happening and they are doing nothing about it, aren't they liable?
If the insurance companies know this is happening, shouldn't they hire undercover investigators to find the names of the people doing this and then deny them insurance coverage?
Wouldn't that be the easiest and smartest thing to do?
I live in NB, and took my driver's Ed near the end of COVID, and I had the full 10 hours of in car driving, but basically no class time, just a 2 hour video going through the drivers handbook. Thankfully my dad helped me a lot, I had driven over 2000km in Ontario, Quebec, and NB, before even getting my 7(2) (G2). I now have my class 5, am fully licensed, and have safely driven over 25,000km in 7+ cars in my 2.5 years of driving, with a combination of Toronto driving, highway driving, backroads driving, everything.
newcomers are not familiar with the general rules on the streets, like who has the right of way, and which side of the street should they go on, etc. They did not take the time to observe the road conditions before learning how to drive. so this is the reason why many highway exits have signs like 'do not enter', and it makes you think, isn't it obvious that they're highway exists? who would have driven in there? Gov wouldn't be wasting money on putting up these redundant signs if all drivers actually understand general rules on the streets.
This isn’t new instructors have been doing this, even my instructor when I was learning (6-7 years back) offered to do this for me. Although that behaviour of the first instructor in the white car is unacceptable.
"7 years back" you're saying that, like that was some time ago.
That is why driving license need to be given by the government authorities
New Canadians screwing the system, who would have thought.
Infuriating. Putting everyone else's life at risk because of sheer laziness. 😢 im sure a lot of them have never driven in canadian winter.
Makes me feel safer here in Saskatchewan. I can't imagine someone new to Canada cheating like this and driving on ice and snow, let alone regular pavement.
oh they try but darwin is undefeated. the issue is they take someone else out on their way
Saskatchewan had the lowest enforcement of the rules, things got changed somehow.
At least the driving test is done by SGI.
This is NOT a Public Safety issue. The drivers with false training I believe still perform the formal (Ontario) drivers test.
Two points: - The lax Ontario Drivers test puts public safety at risk and, - false driver training cert's increase all insurance rates by demonstrating reduced effectiveness of advanced driver training.
Hopefully you are not being serious about the test if you think that prove you know how to drive.
Keep it up MarketPlace and elected officials have a responsibility to the citizens they serve. Thanks 🇨🇦
It's great that the kids in school understand that each accident, even if they are not involved, affects their insurance rates. Kudos to Ashly for doing it right. Here in the US, we have driver's ed in high school. We also have private driver training that can be paid for. When my wife and son came from overseas, I enrolled them in driver training with one of the seven 5 star companies I found on the web. They have been driving in the USA now for ten years with zero accidents and zero traffic citations. My dash cam caught a near miss for my wife a month after she got her license. She had a slightly greater following distance than anyone else that could be seen and was one of the few that was able to get to the shoulder to slip around while the carnage was still happening. She credited her training to being aware of a safe distance. It sure helped.
Everything is a scam.
Yeah there doesn't seem to be any laws in Canada, it's the looting phase.
when you allow mass migration of scam experts, everything is bound to turn into scams
Who thinks government inspectors are getting " kickbacks?"
If these people frauded the government and insurance companies, whenever one of those drivers gets in a car accident, they should not be able to get insurance coverage ever and pay every cent on every lawsuit.
Excellent exposé on revealing these fraudulent driving schools. Next, I would like to see a segment on security training schools. I worked in security. Where newly hired guards are joining with well known security companies with fraudulently obtained security licenses. It is same thing as the driver licenses. Where they don't take the province mandated test but they have someone else take the test for them. I have worked with guards, who couldn't speak a word of English or French when they started work. The security companies overlook it as they just needing people to fulfil their quota on their contracts.
This similar cheating tactic and method is very common used in other industries as well such as Security industry as security crowd control license , immigration agent obtaining student visa in Australia.
Perhaps the CBC should do the right thing and disclose the identities of those criminals breaking the law, selling illegitimate BDEs and making threats, so that the tax payer funding is put to some legitimate use.
There should be a 'secret shopper' going around all these driving institutions and if caught the instructor gets a $100k fine, all management of the business a $1,000,000 fine and the business a $10,000,000 fine.
They just did this but won't reveal the crooks..... :(
Thank you cbc for the marketplace series 🙏🙏
I took my driving test 5 times abd passed it at the last try......I strongly agree that government should take it back from these registries......otherwise, it's not working
That’s right and it’s bad out there
Here is a truck driver with 25 years experience working in the city. From my daily experience 70 % of drivers do not know basic rules .The problem is that diving schools teach only how to pass exam but not how to drive on the road after you got a driving licence ..
We appreciate investigative reporting. It’s important.
This is sad that In Canada public & private sectors have become badly corrupted. And this is because of the mass immigration from those countries where corruption & fraud is not condemnable at all . Even Drive Test examiners are involved in taking money for issuing driver licenses Ontario Minister of transportation should take tougher measures against those involved in this scam.
The Prime Mister funds all of these scams
Another idea is using the Australia transport method where person have to physically attend and visit the transport department to complete a written test.
They have Health inspectors checking restaurants but yet there’s no accountability in other type of businesses.
Well, the scary thing is that this has been happening in the Trucking Industry for at least two decades. Imagine an inexperienced commercial truck driver. Every day, everywhere. Certain groups own that "market".