Reasonable Accommodation in Ontario

If you are an Indo-Canadian and mostly speaking Punjabi, you may not be reading this blog but, if you are an English speaking Canadian, this may have some interest to you. A new trucking association now exist in Ontario, the ITA (Indian Trucking Association) and this association has already made many demands to Transport Minister Jim Bradley.

With out being bigot in any ways or xenophobic, only a concerned citizen that is aware of some laws and would like to see them applied or modified, but to read that Minister Bradley has accepted to a demand of the ITA to appoint Punjabi speaking officers at major truck inspections points rose a question to me. The FMCSA law rules that a driver should be able to hold a conversation with an officer for safety reasons. Why is it here in Canada we can’t have a similar law that would require that a driver could at least talk one of the two official language of the country?

Even in air traffic ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation), a UN organisation headquartered in Montreal, stated that English is the air traffic language of communication for the same safety reasons and this worldwide.

OBAC will be asked to put pressure on the federal Minister of Transport to determine a disposition, to speak at least one of both official languages, in the Canadian Transport laws to ensure safety to all road users.