MPI replaces faulty drivers' licences
0 Comments | Winnipeg Free Press, Apr 29, 2009
MANITOBA Public Insurance has replaced about 45,000 drivers’ licences after an alert motorist found a misspelled word in French.
MPI spokesman Brian Smiley said the Crown auto insurer sent letters to each licence holder last month telling them replacement licences would be mailed to them at no cost. The mistake was a question mark replacing the letter e in the word numero.
Smiley said the mistake was caused by a software glitch between MPI and Saskatchewan Government Insurance, which prints Manitoba drivers’ licences. The cost to MPI to replace the licences was about $90,000.
“We’ve gone to great lengths to ensure it won’t happen again,” Smiley said, adding the mistake won’t impact Autopac rates.
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The matter came up in question period Tuesday at the Manitoba legislature.
Tory MPI critic Cliff Graydon said the error is a symptom of how poorly MPI is being managed by the Doer government.
Graydon (Emerson) noted the province’s new enhanced identity cards are another mistake. The cards were brought in earlier this year as a passport alternative to meet new U.S
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