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RE: Suicide: RE: iQor Collection agency - CBCL /407 ETR Express Toll Route

Postby Tammy Flores » Mon Dec 19, 2011 06:11:19 AM

Just browsing all things 407 ETR this morning and came across this post. To answer your question Steve re: the selling off of the 407 and a developer building on it the answer is no unless the Province gives them permission. We still own the highway. The relationship between the Province and this private corporation is like a Land Lord/Tenant relationship. The 407 ETR merely are the operators of the highway. The Province is still the owner.
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RE: Suicide: RE: iQor Collection agency - CBCL /407 ETR Express Toll Route

Postby Tammy Flores » Mon Sep 19, 2011 04:05:56 AM

I just noticed this topic. I realize this goes as far back as Dec. 2006. In 2004 Harrindar Takar, then Minister of Transportation ordered a Customer Service Review. It was to be a 2 fold process. A fact finding mission and a correction was to be the outcome. When MPP Mike Colle released his report in 2006 it revealed many complaints. Changes were made, however, here we are, September 2011 and these problems still exist. We started a group of concerned citizens called "Stop the 407 ETR's Abuse of Power". This highway has gotten more convuluted in that now our CPP is a major shareholder (probably because foreign ownership rules were breached, but no one complained) and now they are extended it in the east.

I have confirmation from MTO that the Province plans on running this extension. This leaves way too many questions. For example, now we are going to have a larger billing nightmare because you are traveling across 2 systems. Minister Wynne says no and that there will be a seamless system, but I don't buy it.

There are so many things wrong with the current 108 KM's. This is in fact still a public property. It's operated by a private corporation. We have been shafted folks. It's time to speak up.
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RE: Suicide: RE: iQor Collection agency - CBCL /407 ETR Express Toll Route

Postby stevenc » Thu Aug 30, 2007 08:56:22 PM

Well, to me "toll roads" are acceptable if:

1) The road is/was built by the party/parties who collect the toll payments (this is the way it was done in 19th-century Ontario!).

2) IF the road in question was built at taxpayers' expense, any toll income goes back to the governmental body who paid to build the roads (this is the way the Pennsylvania Turnpike has operated since 1940...!)

3) The toll road is somehow superior to any "free" government-constructed roads serving the same points...!

The 407 fails on points one and two, and MIGHT pass on point three. Realistically, the 407 (having been sold off to an OVERSEAS company who still insist that license renewals MUST be unavailable if they are owed any money...?) is the
same thing as, for example, the city of Toronto selling off all its municipal parks to a Slobbovian holding company, who then get
the rights to collect entry fees (which THEY get to set...!) at each and every entrance to every park...while it is still left to the muncipal Public Works dep't. to maintain said parks!

One quick applicable question...! Should a developer decide that a piece of land now occupied by the 407 would be an ideal site for a 357-story condominium building...can the 407 corporation sell him/her/it that land, at a profit, and then have the province build a new, re-routed highway which detours around the new tower...?!

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RE: Suicide: RE: iQor Collection agency - CBCL /407 ETR Express Toll Route

Postby montyloree » Thu Aug 30, 2007 09:06:11 AM

Paying tolls for highways is wrong...
Don't we pay enough taxes in this country?

Highways for profit is ridiculous.
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RE: Suicide: RE: iQor Collection agency - CBCL /407 ETR Express Toll Route

Postby stevenc » Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:00:00 AM

The interesting thing is that the 407 is, in theory, privately owned, by a company headquartered in Spain (after being sold off by the sadly-NOT-late Mike Harris!!)...but the costs of extending it further to the east will, and MUST be, paid by the Province of Ontario!! To me, this is the same as A&P Canada having theit store expansions paid for by the province, on the grounds that citizens of the province will enjoy better access to groceries once the improvements are completed.

Back in the 1850's, the folks who wanted to run and collect tolls on the "Nonquon Road" (Oshawa to Seagrave, with a tollgate every few miles) at least had to BUILD the dommed road themselves!

When are they going to privatize the sidewalks...?!

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RE: Suicide: RE: iQor Collection agency - CBCL /407 ETR Express Toll Route

Postby dhovey » Mon Jan 08, 2007 12:00:00 AM

After faxing proof of payment, numerous calls and countless bottles of tylenol (tm) I received yet another call from iQor, Inc formerly CBCL - Canadian Bonded Credit Limited - Now Iqor Collection Agency this morning. As it turns out, 407 applied my payment from April 2003 in December 2006 showing over $600 balance due !!! I've decided to stop contacting the 407 and have advised iQor, Inc formerly CBCL - Canadian Bonded Credit Limited - Now Iqor Collection Agency to proceed with the legal matters. I am giving a copy of all my notes to a lawyer and thinking about sending a copy to the Toronto Star just to be a little more annoying.

Wish me luck.
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RE: Suicide: RE: iQor Collection agency - CBCL /407 ETR Express Toll Route

Postby montyloree » Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:00:00 AM

Hey Darren,
sorry for the delay.

It's the holiday season and i've been building a new website project.

Sometimes these collections are in an automated system and the people using them have their procedures to follow. Sometimes collection agencies hide behind their software systems.

Hiring a lawyer is a good step in posturing. Ultimately you need to get with the regulatory bodies of both iQor, Inc formerly CBCL - Canadian Bonded Credit Limited - Now Iqor Collection Agency and 407. iQor, Inc formerly CBCL - Canadian Bonded Credit Limited - Now Iqor Collection Agency is regulated provincially and I'm not sure which government body regulates 407.

iQor, Inc formerly CBCL - Canadian Bonded Credit Limited - Now Iqor Collection Agency must listen to your consumer protection department on this when you issue a formal complaint in writing. Otherwise their license will be revoked.

Hope that helps.

I need to get back to being buried in my new website project. :)

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RE: Suicide: RE: iQor Collection agency - CBCL /407 ETR Express Toll Route

Postby dhovey » Wed Dec 27, 2006 12:00:00 AM

I haven't gotten to that point, but I have been fighting with both of these companies for the last month over a bill I paid in 2003. I faxed proof of payment to both iQor, Inc formerly CBCL - Canadian Bonded Credit Limited - Now Iqor Collection Agency and 407, but they have done nothing. I had to go through files, payment receipts, etc to prove I paid the bill. The funny thing was that the 407 had the bank's authorization number ( I paid online) from my original payment !! I decided to call them every day like iQor, Inc formerly CBCL - Canadian Bonded Credit Limited - Now Iqor Collection Agency did and see if my account is cleared up. If it's not cleared up soon, should I contact a lawyer ?

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RE: Suicide: RE: iQor Collection agency - CBCL /407 ETR Express Toll Route

Postby dhovey » Wed Dec 27, 2006 12:00:00 AM

I haven't gotten to that point, but I have been fighting with both of these companies for the last month over a bill I paid in 2003. I faxed proof of payment to both iQor, Inc formerly CBCL - Canadian Bonded Credit Limited - Now Iqor Collection Agency and 407, but they have done nothing. I had to go through files, payment receipts, etc to prove I paid the bill. The funny thing was that the 407 had the bank's authorization number ( I paid online) from my original payment !! I decided to call them every day like iQor, Inc formerly CBCL - Canadian Bonded Credit Limited - Now Iqor Collection Agency did and see if my account is cleared up. If it's not cleared up soon, should I contact a lawyer ?

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Suicide: RE: iQor Collection agency - CBCL /407 ETR Express Toll Route

Postby montyloree » Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:00:00 AM

I was looking through my web log files and noticed that there are people who are searching for information about people who are actually committing suicide because of the 407etr Express Toll Route.

Suicide is serious. It's crazy to think that somebody would kill themselves because of a toll for driving down the highway.

If this is the case, the province needs to be notified about it!!

Some people are fragile, and next to nothing can set them off.

I'm curious to hear any stories about suicide and the 407 ETR.
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