The province doesn't. Instead, they create a regulation allowing parking lots to buy your name and address from the government records provided the outfit puts up warning signs in their lots and can prove they need our info to do business.
Of course, they can't prove they need to know where you live to do business. They did a booming business putting a person in a booth to take our money or installing an electronic gate, before they put in machines where they don't have to pay staff and we always overpay on the time we need.
Why pretend? The government is doing this to help Impark's bottom line. Figured they'd at least wait until the middle of summer to ink the deal, when the average attention span is at its shortest. But the province is eager to please.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Calgary/Rick_Bell/2005/07/03/1115358.html
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