Canada Ping!
Posted on 02/14/2013 7:41:12 AM PST by Squawk 8888
Canada Ping!
It would be more than a minor inconvenience here in Michigan.
Good plan. They are the interlopers; let the burden fall on them, not Americans. We should do the same with Spanish.
Clearly a Canadian license can be read by a Florida police man. The big problem could be at the car rental kiosks. I’ve rented cars in Canada and the UK without any problem using a Massachusetts drivers license.
This is idiotic. They need to fix this NOW.
Guess Floriduh doesn’t need Canadian money.
Granted Canucks spend money here.
Some of them are real shmucks though.
And they drive REALLY slowly !
“Florida passed the law so that its law-enforcement officials would not encounter driver’s licence documents in languages they could not read”
Can their law enforcement officials understand plain English?
It's that damn metric system conversion.
At least in Fort Lauderdale, the vast majority of visitors are French-Canadians.
Since the upper half of the Canadian head flies up when they talk (thus hindering proper vision) it is easier and more profitable to require permits than require they don’t talk while driving.
This is not news for non-us citizens driving in the USA. (non commercial)
There is a multilateral treaty where you have a permit document, with your picture affixed, you carry with your standard DL. It is good in most countries AS LONG AS you have a valid DL in place of origin.
This is moure about selling CAA memberships.
AAA membership gets you the permit document for free. (AND pictures if you have an enhanced membership.)
I agree they should waive this for Canadians.
This gives me an idea though. Perhaps pro-2nd Amendment states could refuse to recognize driver’s licenses from states that don’t honor their resident’s gun permits.
Follow the money.
Kinda stupid as from what I’ve heard an IDP is FAR easier to get than their Provincial license back home. (I’m told in some countries it’s as simple as paying the proper bribe to the proper hack official)
Yes ... obviously anyone who can understand plain English will have no problems with a Quebecois Permis de Conduire.
“Can their law enforcement officials understand plain English?
“Probably not in south Fla. a lot of hispanics down there dontchaknow.
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