We are by all means. I appreciate your point, but there is a fact you need to be aware of in this particular industry: virtually all the trucks of the trucking companies in Atlantic Canada also go into the United States. In other words, they must get across the American border, and the truck driver must be able to communicate with the customs officials, immigration officials, police officials, and weigh scale operators. Some of the people on the border in the United States are not too tolerant of those who can't speak English fairly well, so that's the reason.
An individual has every right to apply for immigration in French or English. That's not a problem in itself. The problem is really created though the cross-border nature of the trucking industry, since the Americans are the ones who require the English-speaking competence.