Biased Law Applications in Society

On examining issues that affect society, Quebec offers a scenario that is distinctive, Anglophone views are not as appreciated as a Francophone’s. The law has an odd way of reacting to society. More specifically the arm of the law likes to choose on whom has the better verdict based on their language. Such was the scenario experienced by an Anglo who saw a pedestrian mowed down in broad daylight.

 The police repeated told him to get back to the sidewalk when he gave his version of the accident. Blue-collar workers who came afterwards were given a full audience. Coincidentally those workers were francophone. Perhaps there wasn’t enough time for them to understand fully what he was saying but they should be speaking and understanding both languages. This incident is one of many where Anglo’s are not given due respect for their observations in a mostly French speaking province. My suspicion is that there is a partiality between whom the police listen to and whom they should.

 That indirectly gives the justice system a bad image, especially of the driver gets off with a fine.  Another way of saying this is that the arm of the law behaved in a racist manner.The man should face a court scene and have his license revoked but that is not going to happen. One only has to remember the five people who died in Montreal streets last winter killed by snow removal crews. They are still working, cleaning the snow away from the streets and who knows if they even paid a fine!

The issue at stake here was the life of a person that could have been saved had the truck driver put his breaks on before hitting the lady and smashing her skull against the pavement. The remark of the driver as he mowed her over when there was no traffic in site was that it “wasn’t a joke”. His excuse was that he was just following the flow of traffic when there was none. The Anglo noted all this but an old enmity rekindled by the Anglo’s clear observations were secondary to the testimonial lies the police got from the blue collared workers who weren’t even there at the time of the accident.

The issue does not stop at the street corner it continues with language being an issue in the educational system where a sufficient amount of English should be taught to immigrants so that they can work in both languages. French schools are doing their best to keeping the French language flourish whereas the English language is being dampened. Years later those same French people will have to spend thousands of dollars to learn the English language they were denied and it will be more difficult to do so. Yet hardened nationalists in the province are fearful of losing their French language so maybe this explains why it is necessary not to give an immigrant his right to choose even when the average French Quebecer will benefit by speaking both languages clearly? And the paradox is many of those French speaking politicians recognize the advantage in speaking two or more languages so why be so restrictive to the newcomer? Where is the sense in all this?

So if you are a pedestrian, you can be one who will lose out with a car if there is a confrontation and then the driver can get off Scot free or on reduced charges because he just turned 18 which is the age of consent and the age of responsibility. If you are a new Canadian wanting better learning opportunities, you have the provincial laws interfering with your choices. If you are Anglo in a country that is mostly English speaking, you’ll receive a biased consideration from the arm of justice.