Driving - To tell the truth

Here in Québec, don’t anyone dare to call the department responsible for giving you your driving permit because they will find a way of suspending you - especially if you are a senior. Here is what happened to me. Since my eyes were getting really bad, I called them and asked them to suspend my driving permit because of my eyes. I’m stubborn but knowing that if I drove while my driving permit was suspended I would be charged. 

I made an appointment to find out what was wrong with my eyes only to find out I had cataracts. So I went into the hospital and had my eyes operated on. Once that was done, I called to get the department responsible for issuing drivers permits to send me the papers to get a physical (which they did) because I am a senior and I knew I had to do that in order to drive again. But after receiving them I couldn’t find a doctor for a physical for over a year. To make matters worse, I had moved and in the move a box was lost and the papers that I had received for a physical were in that box.

So I sent a request to the department responsible for issuing those driving permits and explained why I needed those papers again. Instead of sending me those papers they sent me a letter that I was suspended because I hadn’t driven for a couple of years. The thing is, I drove almost every damn thing that could be driven except tractor trailers but even tandems loaded with sand and gravel. When I came to Québec, I exchanged my Ontario license and was given just a regular drivers’ license as if I had never driven before. Now according to the letter that they sent me, it was as if I had never driven before and I would have to start all over again. After having driven for almost 40 years, them wanting me to start all over, they must be sick or are sing any excuse because I am a senior and they just want to make more money for the department. All I can say to this department is that they can shove it where the sun don’t shine. I’ll move instead of spending money here for a driving permit. One thing I would like to ask the person who sent me that letter, "Who is more dangerous - a person that just got his/her driving permit or a person that has driven for decades without any accident?"

Open letter to the Premier of the province of Québec.

Pauline Marois,

According to what is reported by the media, it seems that you want to make this province unilingual instead of trying to get along with everyone else in this one country, which is called Canada.

Well, by trying to do that you are creating resentfulness and hate for the French in both provinces Ontario and Québec and probably other provinces too. Do you think that you can expect any company that would be worthwhile to this province to come over here and open a business when they would only be allowed to work in French only?

This province has been almost bankrupted by the Liberals and now by trying to push French only could be the end of this province.

In this province as it is there not enough jobs created by this government for the workers that are here. What would happen if the employers in Ottawa would get together and say that’s it, we will only hire the people in this province French or English, as long as they are permanent residents of this province?

 How many people from this province work in the province of Ontario now? Every morning the roads from this province are jammed with the Québec workers going to Ontario and if it wasn’t for Ontario, your welfare office couldn’t afford the help for the people that would be on it.

It should not be too long now before this might come to pass. I listen to the people on the Lowell Green talk show every morning. I can tell you that the people of Ontario and a lot from this province calling in are complaining about this unnecessary law of  bill c101. Before that came out there wasn’t as much hatred for French Quebecers as there is now.

This province will never be able to go it alone not the way it is being governed at this time. In order for this province to get back to what it used to be, bill C101 would have to go and this province would have to become bilingual.  Only then it might have a chance to survive and be better off for the next generation. The French language will never disappear from this country. The whole province might become a province of the past to be forgotten in history as a province that could not get along with its partners because of the languages.