Court documents show Liliana Di Cienzo maintained she could drive safely using her left eye when she tried returning to work about a year after her eye removal
A city bus driver whose licence was revoked after she lost her eye to cancer has won her battle to have the relevant provincial regulations declared unconstitutional.
Liliana Di Cienzo, a bus driver with an unblemished driving record in Oakville, Ont., lost her right eye to cancer in October 2013 when she was 41 years old. As a result, the province revoked her Class C commercial licence under a section of the Highway Traffic Act that bars a person with one eye from holding the permit.
“I was pretty much shocked,” Di Cienzo, of Hamilton, said in an interview. “I was certain that I’d at least be given a road test to prove I could do it.” The rules do make a distinction based on a physical disability, the province conceded, but said they do not specifically single out those with one eye, because even people with both eyes functional might not meet the standards.
Di Cienzo’s lawyer, Neil Wilson, said the ruling would affect Class-C licensing, which covers all buses other than school buses.
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