Episode Details

A Toronto man, Halpin Hild, is stuck paying $30K in unpaid fines from the 90s after serving jail time for selling imitation goods — despite a judge who seemed to think his sentence should’ve settled the debt. Decades later, as the city aggressively pursues over $2 million in old fines (even though it recently wiped $3 million in other uncollected debts), Hild’s case highlights a legal loophole: Provincial Offences Act fines never expire. Now he’s fighting back with lawyers and credit bureaus, arguing his jail time should’ve erased the debt — and wondering how a single day of tickets could still haunt him today.

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