Posted AT 4:48 PM EST on 17/02/06
CRTC as Robin Hood
Imagine this scenario: Every time you go to park your car in a municipal parking lot, you get charged too much — but you don't know any better, so you pay whatever the lot requires you to pay. Several years later, your municipal government admits that it has been over-charging you, but says that it's for your own good, and that the money that piled up in overflow charges is going to go to a good cause — say, fixing potholes in local roads, or planting trees in a park.
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