Alberta ordered to pay $120,000 in legal fees for man fighting $54 ticket

[Jason14h]

http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/Al...564/story.html

[bomber317]

anger rising........

Must not kill next pro-equal-language person i see.....

[Ducay]

Dear Frenchies, be less invasive or go back to Quebec and light some cars on fire or something.

[troutman]

"The principle or the logic is that some cases are so important that there's a social utility to having them decided because it leads to perhaps greater social stability," Mark Power, a lawyer representing the Association canadienne-francaise de l'Alberta, said Thursday. "The argument in Caron is that there's a general utility in Alberta to know whether it has to translate its laws into French."

Read more: http://www.canada.com/life/Alberta+m...#ixzz1D0a7D8D1

[Chingas]

F###### f#####

[burn_this_city]

I bet he can speak english.

[FlameOn]

Another reason to let the Frenchies separate already.

[CaptainCrunch]

Makes you wonder why you can't successfully challenge bill 101 in Quebec and tie it up in court for years.

I think its bill 101 anyways.

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by burn_this_city

I bet he can speak english.

Apparently he is fully bilingual, understood the ticket completely and admitted that he committed the violation. He's just choosing to be a jackass.

Alberta is not a bilingual province, so frankly, he can go suck it. If the SCoC's eastern elites side with him in the main complaint, I'd definitely support the use of the notwithstanding clause.

[mykalberta]

I have gotten so tired if issues like this that is just meh. I just dont care anymore. Some jacka$$ doesnt want to pay his ticket and now we have to spend millions of dollars so that if some jacka$$ from QC breaks the law while here that he can read the laws in his native language.

[Rathji]

We live in a nation with 2 official languages and our court system cannot provide service in both of those languages? I understand that this is provincial court and our province isn't officially bilingual, but seriously someone must have seen this coming. It is not like there isn't anyone working for the courts system that is bilingual...

edit: Let me just clarify, the courts should have some sort of plan available for people who do not speak English. I think having it for French, should have been a foregone conclusion.

[Table 5]

Never mind the guy, 120k in legal fees to fight a speeding ticket? These bloodsuckers don't a crap who wins, they're going to get paid as long as there is action. It's a nice little racket.

[BlackEleven]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Makes you wonder why you can't successfully challenge bill 101 in Quebec and tie it up in court for years.

I think its bill 101 anyways.

Because speeding tickets in Quebec are already bilingual. And pretty well all official documentation that I know of can also be requested in English ( provincial tax returns, school taxes, property taxes, etc).

[Boblobla]

Originally Posted by Table 5

Never mind the guy, 120k in legal fees to fight a speeding ticket? These bloodsuckers don't a crap who wins, they're going to get paid as long as there is action. It's a nice little racket.

Do they the whole thing as well?

[ken0042]

Originally Posted by mykalberta

,snip..... so that if some jacka$$ from QC breaks the law while here that he can read the laws in his native language.

Keep in mind there are some French speaking towns in Alberta. There's one near Grande Prairie.

I don't see an issue of having one courtroom in Alberta that can opperate in French. Surely there is at least one judge and one Crown Attourney in this province that is bilingual.

Then make travel to that particular court the defendant's responsibility.

[shermanator]

Bunch of cheese eating surrender monkeys!

[REDVAN]

I was just in the courthouse today for a speeding ticket (set a trial date because I was not satisfied with the first appearance prosecutors offer).

It says EVERYWHERE in the courthouse, that if you do not understand the charges, you can ask to have them explained to you and given time to understand them. It also says that you can ask the court to appoint a translator at the governments cost.

Without knowing more about the case, it seems like it's just a bunch of baloney.

[valo403]

Originally Posted by ken0042

Keep in mind there are some French speaking towns in Alberta. There's one near Grande Prairie.

I don't see an issue of having one courtroom in Alberta that can opperate in French. Surely there is at least one judge and one Crown Attourney in this province that is bilingual.

Then make travel to that particular court the defendant's responsibility.

Not sure that would fly, putting up a large obstacle to access, like excessive travel, is often viewed as not actually providing access at all.

[darockwilder]

Originally Posted by REDVAN

It says EVERYWHERE in the courthouse, that if you do not understand the charges, you can ask to have them explained to you and given time to understand them. It also says that you can ask the court to appoint a translator at the governments cost.

Was this in French?

[spiteface]

This thread is great.