{"id":103520,"date":"2026-07-10T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=103520"},"modified":"2026-07-09T20:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:00:27","slug":"defensive-driving-is-more-important-today-than-ever-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/07\/10\/defensive-driving-is-more-important-today-than-ever-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Defensive driving is more important today than ever before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At some point, the Canadian and provincial governments decided that the safety of their citizens was a lower priority than ensuring that temporary foreign workers &mdash; many of whom apparently understand little or no English or French &mdash; had to be given commercial trucking licenses and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KirkLubimov\/status\/2075264823818846627\" target=\"_blank\">set loose on the King&#8217;s Highways<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Trucking-companies-deemed-unsafe-use-TFW-drivers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Trucking-companies-deemed-unsafe-use-TFW-drivers-853x516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"853\" height=\"516\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-103521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Trucking-companies-deemed-unsafe-use-TFW-drivers-853x516.jpg 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Trucking-companies-deemed-unsafe-use-TFW-drivers-480x291.jpg 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Trucking-companies-deemed-unsafe-use-TFW-drivers-150x91.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Trucking-companies-deemed-unsafe-use-TFW-drivers-768x465.jpg 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Trucking-companies-deemed-unsafe-use-TFW-drivers-1536x930.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Trucking-companies-deemed-unsafe-use-TFW-drivers.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Absolutely insane\u203c\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>But this is something I&#8217;ve been raising the alarm on for years.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian trucking industry, which almost a third of it is gray\/black market now, have been captured by foreigners and empowered by Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>100 trucking companies with a history of safety infractions, labour violations and regulatory failures were approved by the Liberals to mass immigrate temporary foreign workers.<\/p>\n<p>Canadians are losing their lives on our roads every day by foreigners who shouldn&#8217;t be in Canada that the Liberals allowed scam organizations to bring in and who shouldn&#8217;t be behind the steering wheel to begin with. Then the Liberals and activists judges won&#8217;t even deport these people.<\/p>\n<p>Many trucking companies that lose license to operate or get hit with infractions would just change provinces of operations and name &#8211; sometimes not even the name, and would just keep operating because there is no proper systems raising red flags and no one investigates. Complete incompetence.<\/p>\n<p>Many operate in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario and move around these provinces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point, the Canadian and provincial governments decided that the safety of their citizens was a lower priority than ensuring that temporary foreign workers &mdash; many of whom apparently understand little or no English or French &mdash; had to be given commercial trucking licenses and set loose on the King&#8217;s Highways: Absolutely insane\u203c\ufe0f But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,831,6,84,9,53],"tags":[542,111,554,908,1066,87,753],"class_list":["post-103520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-business","category-cancon","category-government","category-law","category-politics","tag-alberta","tag-cars","tag-immigration","tag-liberalparty","tag-logistics","tag-ontario","tag-saskatchewan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qVG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103523,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103520\/revisions\/103523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}