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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
Yes it does.
It is well known that perfectly bilingual Acadians will suddenly lose their ability to converse in English when confronted with an anglophone police officer at a traffic stop.
This is not generally a problem in southeastern or northern NB (most RCMP here are francophone), but this situation has arisen in places like southwestern NB. Usually the anglophone police officer will put in a request for a bilingual officer to attend the scene (slowing down the whole process, and removing another police officer from patrol), but occasionally, none is available, a traffic ticket is issued, the offender will challenge this in court on the basis on non compliance with the official languages act, and the ticket gets tossed.
A question for you (or Acajack) then - what happens if a unilingual Torontonian on his way to NS is stopped on the A-20 for an alleged speeding infraction and the SQ officer is unilingual francophone. Can the Torontonian challenge the speeding ticket in court, or is he shit out of luck..........
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Would the same thing happen if an Anglophone is caught speeding in a francophone area? Would a bilingual Anglophone "forget" his French if a Francophone officer was to give him a ticket in the hope to have said ticket challenged?
This is an article about a ruling by the Supreme Court saying there is no constitutional right for a ticket in French in Alberta. I presume it also means that there is no constitutional right for a ticket in English in Québec, and, as per Acajack, tickets in Québec have English on the back and you could contest them in English. Weird that the
so racist and closed-minded Québec has more respect for minority rights that the
so broad-minded English Canada...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/...ets,passing%20laws%20in%20English%20only.