Traffic signs do not have to be bilingual even in areas designated bilingual area under the French Language Services Act

R. v. Petruzzo, 2011 ONCA 386 holds that traffic signs do not have to be bilingual even in areas designated bilingual area under the French Language Services Act:

[9] Nonetheless, Mr. Petruzzo finds support for his argument in the decision of Justice of the Peace Napier in R. v. Myers, 2004CarswellOnt 5638 (C.J.). In that case, the Justice of the Peace held that unilingual traffic signs in the City of Toronto were not valid. In his view, because the City is a designated bilingual area under the French Language Services Act, traffic signs under the Highway Traffic Actmust be in both English and French.

[10] Respectfully, I consider the decision in Myers to be wrong. It does not satisfactorily explain why the City of Toronto is obliged to have bilingual signs when it has not passed a by-law under s. 14 of the Act. Most important, Myers does not refer to s. 52 of Regulation 615, which expressly states that absent a by-law under s. 14, bilingual signs are not required.