When you move to administer licence suspensions, the administration involved is very detailed and onerous. We know from experience talking with Ministry of Transportation people in Toronto that they wanted to make absolutely sure these worked. They had no sanctions on your licence. Prior to this they would take your car away and give it back to you, I think, in 12 hours. Now they are moving to other sanctions, because they feel pretty sure that the administration is in place to handle these administrative licence suspensions.
On February 25th, 2009. See this statement in context.