EAGLES NOT ALLOWED IN CANADA

[scottie]

HI
someone on this group ,mention to me a little while back that the eagles were not allowed to be owned in canada.its okay if your from the u.s. and traveling around ,but you cant own one if you live here because of crash tests standards.
the reason i brought this up is.... i just found one for sale 1990 silver eagle 6v91...in pickering ontario.
any comments???
scottie

[prevost82]

Scottie ... if it's in Canada and it's registered in Canada you're OK. Someone just posted that one in for sale on Vancouver Island.
Ron

[bobofthenorth]

The problem with Eagles in Canada is Transport Canada's RVIA (import) department.  If its already in Canada with a Canadian registration it isn't an issue.  It shouldn't be an issue anyway but - like everything else that Transport Canada touches - common sense and reason has nothing to do with it.

[scottie]

mmm okay  so let me get this straight.

if it allready here,thats okay,but if your bring one back from the u.s you cant
so transport canada must have change the rules,sometime after 1990...
gee i do like the look of thoses eagles...
thanks
scottie
still looking................

[buswarrior]

There is a list of allowed imports here:

http://www.tc.gc.ca/roadsafety/importation/menu.htm

US has similiar rules in place for southbound imports too.

The restrictions are not for crash tests in buses, but for the required design and equipment to be in place, meeting the various legislated standards, and whether the manufacturer ever sought approval for their sale in Canada, which is the stumbling block for most.

If an example has managed to sneak past and gain it's "citizenship" then great!!!

If you are trying to get your own in, you'd better be well informed to figure out how to get lightening to strike again! Or establish an American address of convenience and get on with it.

happy coaching!
buswarrior

[bobofthenorth]

Its a great theory BW but thats all it is.  If you were to buy a brand new built-in-Quebec Prevost, register it in Canada, move it to the US, register it in the US and then immediately hire a converter to convert it you would not be able to bring it back into Canada unless your converter was one of a select few who have managed to jump through Transport Canada's hoops.  This is not about safety or consumer protection.  Its about a few pointy headed engineers in TC on a power trip.  If it was about safety there would be some objective set of standards that you could appeal to in the circumstance I outlined above.  There isn't and that's why its a power trip and an excuse to collect some fees when vehicles cross the border.

IMHO

[buswarrior]

Or....

What Bob said up there!

Isn't that the default answer for most of what passes for government involvment?

funny sometimes, a crying shame for the rest.

happy coaching!
buswarrior

[Songman]

They don't allow RTSs up there either. It has nothing to do with standards though. It has to do with competition with Canadian companies. Odd that it would apply to a citizen bringing it in to use as a motor home but the law is written to include all RTS buses.

If the bus is already there it can stay, but none can be imported.

[Stan]

Scottie: The whole RVIA thing was brought in after 1990. After the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement, there was a period when it was fairly easy to bring vehicles in from the US.