[Story] Fined $500 for not speaking English properly - Owned!

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Federal law requires that anyone with a commercial driver's licence speak English well enough to talk with police. Authorities last year issud 25,230 tickets nationwide for violations. Now the federal government is trying to tighten the English requirement, saying the change is needed for safety reasons.

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http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/463496

So this truck driver is pulled over just to see if he speaks english, and according to the officer it wasn't good enough so he gets a fine of 500 dollars. Anyone else see anything wrong with this? :busted_co

No. Live in the country, speak the language.

Shouldn't be giving them licences then should they.

The people who sign off on the licences should be the ones who are fined, not the drivers. Language skills is something the examiner should be testing, not wasting the time of police officers.