Many Ontario driving instructors are willing to be paid to help falsify documents, saying students took driving classes when they didn’t, a CBC Marketplace investigation has found.
Marketplace called 20 driving school instructors in Ontario who posted online ads offering beginner driver education (BDE) lessons. Fourteen of them, or 70 per cent, offered to help break licensing rules.
Historically, about 40 per cent of novice drivers have completed the beginner driver education training. In 2022, 160,000 (out of about 400,000) newly licensed drivers completed the training.
To obtain a BDE certificate, a new driver must complete 10 hours of in-car lessons, 20 hours of in-class theory and 10 hours of homework with the driving school. It typically costs between $650 and $1,500.
When new drivers can prove they’ve completed a BDE course in Ontario, it makes them eligible to take their…
