The province says it’s prohibited a transportation company from operating in B.C. after it was involved in six overpass strikes in three years.

A statement sent a 6 a.m. PT from B.C.'s Transportation Minister Rob Fleming said, in the interest of safety, a formal cancellation notice was issued to Chohan Freight Forwarders Ltd. for its operations in B.C. on Thursday.

  • Nomecks
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    8 months ago

    A new company with the same corporate structure is probably already set up. Unless you’re going to ban owners and management then nothing will change.

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      100%, new GST number, perhaps registered under his wife’s name, and slightly different business name, it will be all up and running again as if nothing ever happened.

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        Why would he even have to register under someone else’s name? It was the company that was banned from operating in BC, not the person.

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          Technically no, you don’t need to put it in someone else’s name, but for the sake of least scrutiny by the permitting and licensing arm of the government, a fresh name would speed things up.

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        Don’t worry, we’ll be back at busting bridges again starting next week!

        If only it was that easy to shirk responsibility for negligence simply by saying “oh you think I’m Janet? That’s a totally different person who disappeared yesterday. I’m actually Susan now.”