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The Offence Notice (aka ticket), used as inspiration for this response, was issued to an Ontario resident in Feb 2024.

Ontario, Canada
Steps taken to date

  1. Marked ticket “All Rights Reserved”, signed at random and submitted for trial to court services address on ticket.

  2. Sent email to prosecutor and requested all disclosure including exculpatory evidence.

  3. This “Offence Notice” was issued under subsection 3 (3) of the Provincial Offences Act. Checked the Statute to see if the Notice was issued in accordance to the prescribed rule.

    (In this instance it was.)

  4. Checked to determine if police officer is a provincial offences officer, as defined under Section 1 of the Provincial Offences Act.

    4 (a) if issuing person is not a provincial offences officer as defined under Section 1 of the Provincial Offences Act, send an email to prosecutor requesting a genuine certified copy of “the written desigation by a minister of the Crown”, subject to subsection 1 (3) of the Provincial Offences Act.

    (In this instance the officer does fall under the definition of provincial offences officer)

  5. Call police department for provincial offences officer’s email address or fax number for office detachment.

  6. Identified the Claimant / Informant.

  7. Identified all the statutory parties who are, or may become, attached to this proceeding both directly and indirectly.

  8. Reviewed all aspects of jurisdiction from the court to the provincial judge or provincial justice of the peace and identified as many areas as possible in which lawful (as in “constitutional”) jurisdiction is absent.

  9. Wrote an informal response (Notices) to point out and illustrate each area in which jurisdiction is lacking as served to all parties identified in point 6 and 7.

  10. Signed my informal response and served it to all identified parties and filed it with the Ontario Court of Justice.

  11. Now we wait to see if a constitutional challege under Section 109 (1)(1) of the Courts of Justice Act will be required to challenge these identified issues of jurisdiction illustrated in the informal response will need to be brought before the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario..

A copy of the redacted informal response may be seen and reviewed here.