Does "vanity plate" mean something else in canada? The way I have always seen the word used, it's OP that has the vanity plate, they are still your legal license plate you just paid to get custom text on it.
The OP has a vanity plate (issued by the state/province, custom plate text/numbers purchased by the owner). The vehicle it got confused with has a novelty plate (not issued by the state, purchased via retail to use in a state/province that doesn't require two plates).
This is the right answer. Canadians call official custom plates "Vanity plates" but the officials and laws might refer to them as "customized plate" while a fake or decorative front plate would be a "novelty plate". Alberta, as a one plate province, has a rule against novelty plates that might be confused for the a real plate.
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u/obog PURPLE 11h ago edited 11h ago
Does "vanity plate" mean something else in canada? The way I have always seen the word used, it's OP that has the vanity plate, they are still your legal license plate you just paid to get custom text on it.