Vancouver's Civil City Commissioner Geoff Plant wants to collect the estimated millions of dollars in outstanding bylaw violation tickets owed to the city, he said on Wednesday.

Plant wants ICBC to block the renewal of drivers' licences or car insurance to anyone with any unpaid city-issued tickets, including parking tickets and bylaw infractions.

He plans to propose the idea to city council next Tuesday.

"Drivers licence renewal and insurance renewal is a powerful tool to ensure compliance," Plant said.

If city council approves the idea, Plant will ask the provincial government to legislate the responsibility to ICBC.

ICBC spokesperson Doug Henderson told CTV News the organization is not in favour of the proposal.

"ICBC really isn't interested in getting into the business of collecting fines for municipalities or cities," he said. "To do something like that would have an impact on our business in terms of resources, as well as cost. It's not really something we're interested in getting involved in at this point."

The company currently maintains a policy of not renewing licences or insurance only when a driver has an outstanding debt to the company or an outstanding motor vehicle violation, which are provincially regulated.

On Wednesday, Plant said it didn't matter if ICBC did not like his proposal.

"ICBC is not enthusiastic about this," he said. "But I don't think ICBC is the decision-maker here. Ultimately the province has to decide what's in the public interest."

But Premier Gordon Campbell told reporters the city should find other ways of enforcing bylaws.

"The city sets its bylaws, the city sets its enforcement procedures and the city should discover how they can do that without using ICBC," he said.

B.C. Solicitor-General John Les said the proposal could be a slippery slope.

"I mean that's part of the problem, where does this thing stop?" he said. "ICBC is not the collection facility for Vancouver, or potentially for other cities across the province."

Plant said he would like to see fines for parking and other bylaw offences increased to a minimum of $250, with $500 for more serious offences and up to $10,000 for the most serious offences.

The city of Vancouver originally submitted the idea, led by Councillor Kim Capri, to its Union of B.C. Municipalities in September 2007, saying its own collection of bylaw fines is "slow, expensive and labour-intensive."

The Insurance Brokers Association of B.C. discouraged the proposal, saying insurance brokers are not enforcement officers and municipalities are better suited to act as collection agencies.

The proposal triggered widespread outrage from insurers, motorists and the media.