New Brunswick moves to eliminate renewal stickers on licence plates
CBC
With a new licence plate change, New Brunswick will no longer be stuck in the past.
If approved by the legislature, New Brunswick will join most other Canadian provinces and territories in eliminating licence plate renewal stickers.
The stickers, which buy every year to renew their vehicle registration, would go by the wayside.
This is hardly new in Canada. Out of the country’s 13 provinces and territories, only New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and Nunavut are still using stickers.
“We're really catching up with the rest of Canada right now,” said Aaron Kennedy, minister responsible for Service New Brunswick, which oversees vehicle registrations.
“It's 2025. We live in a digital age and stickers seem a little antiquated.”
Even without the stickers, New Brunswick drivers would still need to renew their registrations online or in person, and would have the option to print out a proof of registration document to keep in their vehicle when they renew.
Renewal reminders for vehicle owners will be available by mail or text, a news release said.
While Kennedy admitted that the ability to visually see that a vehicle is expired will be lost, he said police still have the ability to run licence plates to check they're up to date.
He brushed off the idea that people would be less likely to renew now.
“I think New Brunswickers are generally law-abiding citizens, and I think they want to do the right thing and registering one’s vehicle is part of that,” Kennedy said.
The move away from stickers will apply to licence plates for all types of vehicles in the province, including off-road and commercial vehicles.
The licence plate stickers are not to be confused with motor vehicle inspection stickers that go on windshields, which are not affected at all by the announcement.
When the Northwest Territories stopped issuing stickers in 2015, it sent drivers a blank, white sticker to cover the dated sticker, so police in other provinces or states wouldn’t think a plate was expired after the change happened.
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