Driving- Quebec tightens access to driver’s licences for new immigrants
According to recent statistics, some 40.5% of foreign-born drivers fail the Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ) driving test. Additionally, they also have more accidents on Quebec roads, which is why the provincial Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Geneviève Guilbault, has announced new rules to regulate access to driving privileges for immigrants originating from specific countries and settling in La Belle Province. “The huge rise in immigration to Quebec is having a major impact not only on our services, but also the safety on our roads,” she justified.
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It took Quebec this long to figure this out? Have you seen the crash videos originating from countries outside of North America? These people do not have the same attitude towards driving as native North Americans have. They have no concept of driving as a privilege. They probably have no experience driving in our winter conditions.
Until they learn our traffic laws, and learn to abide by them, they have no right to be on our roads, and the sooner other jurisdictions in Canada recognize that reality, the sooner we can feel safe again on our roads.
I was in Hearst a few years ago and the hotel owner said she had never seen so many highway closures. “Suddenly truck drivers can’t drive” she said.
The wonders of non-assimilation.
Of course if this was about safety then the rules would be the same for non-immigrant drivers. This is about Quebecois racism.
Quit being racist. Quebec is being quite generous, more generous than any other province. They’ve finally sort of come to their senses. They’ve actually believed the statistics and acted on them.
“Afterwards, immigrants from countries without reciprocity agreements who fail the SAAQ road test will no longer be able to drive alone.”
So you have a license from another jurisdiction, that has a reciprocity agreement with SAAQ, you just exchange the license within the first 6 months, if your jurisdiction doesn’t have a reciprocity agreement with SAAQ, you take a test, and if you fail under the new rules you won’t be able to drive in quebec on your own.
Explain the “racism”
Well the part where the new rules for non-reciprocity immigrants don’t apply to everyone else. Why shouldn’t they also take an L for failing a test?
You have an opinion even though you don’t own a car or a driver’s licence.
Idiot Intellectuals need to be shot and pissed on.
All those carbon taxes must be working in southern Manitoba right now.
You should look at the Reddit for Kitchener, Waterloo, Guelph in Ontario… dash cams of new Canadians on the wrong side of the road, going around medians, missing license plates, parking in bus stops, hitting the new streetcars. And the snow makes it worse.. cars with a small porthole in the ice on the front windshield, nothing else cleared.. it’s sad
C’mon man…. It’s all part of the “enrichment”!!
I put a new dash cam in my car in Dec. I had one for a few years and stopped using it but lately when people are driving through red lights at at least 60 to 70 kms I decided it was time to protect my insurance and license.
Red light running is rampant in CA … esp. by the Chinese rice-racing mobiles … cheap Japanese cars souped-up with stabilizer fins on the trunk lids … in San Francisco. Every weekend evening in every Blue city in the Bay Area criminal aliens (mostly) take over major intersections … or the Bay Bridge … and hold “sideshows” that are violent and dangerous. Woe to anyone getting stuck near these “events”
I never enter an intersection anymore on a green light … without looking both ways to check for red light runners and/or distracted video screen readers. Sorry … we have become THAT lawless … we are all on our own … just as you said VOWG
the highest auto insurance rates in the country are in brampton for a reason
My sister and I visited my daughter and son-in-law in Chile in December 2018. Let’s just say that the traffic lights are a suggestion only. The car which we rented had so many dings and fender benders on all for wheels – fortunately, they were well-documented before we took possession for the week.
How are these none citizens supposed to vote without their Drivers license for ID.
Oh The Horror…………
Quebec has less traffic fatalities per capita than Alberta does.
U can’t do traffic fatalities on a per capita basis … you should only look at the stats from a number of drivers basis.
Also you need to correct for miles driven … ie if Albertans drive 50% more kilometres than Quebecers then there will be more accidents. Also it only makes sense to pull out the impaired from the non-impaired and also it would be wise to break it down by age groups and then you have some numbers that are actually meaningful for comparison purposes.
Plus an urban vs rural breakdown would be prudent …. urban accidents tend to be fender benders.
Also how about a link for your data????
You’re a fckn idiot.
Per billion vehicle kilometers, Quebec is the same as the national average, ab is a bit better.
Per 100 000 licenced drivers, Quebec is better than Alberta.
The two of you would rather stick to a BS narrative than look at numbers, which took me all of 15 seconds to find.
https://tc.canada.ca/en/road-transportation/statistics-data/canadian-motor-vehicle-traffic-collision-statistics-2022
In short, this is a false narrative.
Its amazing the sort of stuff Quebec gets to do with regard to immigration but the rest of Canada is expected to just take it.
sooooooo the ‘collusion’ results in the ‘collision’. (had to say it lol)
personally lve been complimented my driving. ONE accident in 34 years. l rear ended an SUV in my Taurus 2007 hydroplaning on very wet pavement, writeoff 2 months before emission stds was going to take it off the road anyway.
lve resorted to bicycling ever since and attribute that to the absence of a beer belly etc.
Shades of Springfield Ohio. Have any Dogs and Cats gone missing. In BC they are armed up with Semis averaging at least one highway closure accident a day mainly around Salmon Arm.