Justice committee  The drug evaluation and classification program we are currently running is the same program we were running with the previous Bill C-16, and before that with the first Bill C-32. The $4.6 million that was announced as being cut wasn't really cut, because we never had it. A total

Justice committee  There are 46 states and the District of Columbia currently in the drug evaluation and classification program, and the other states are either in the process of applying to it or being certified as a DECP state.

Justice committee  There was a study done by the Southern California Research Institute about 10 years ago. A study was also done in Arizona, and one in Minnesota, and we are currently in the process of doing one here in Canada. We just finished one, looking at the evaluations. We've done it, to

Justice committee  Exactly. It would be both training and operational. They were all done by DREs in Canada.

Justice committee  It is.

Justice committee  Certainly.

Justice committee  Certainly.

Justice committee  We currently have sufficient funds for this fiscal year. For ongoing sustainability and expansion of the program, we would require additional funding. Part of the problem we have is the capacity to deliver the training. There are currently two full-time instructors in this progr

Justice committee  First of all, for the impairing levels of marijuana or other drugs, one of the problems they're running into is the same as we have with alcohol. Although the permissible level in Canada is 80 milligrams percent or 0.08, everybody is different. We have people who can be grossly i

Justice committee  You asked about the overall numbers that would be required. When we look at the drug recognition expert, we basically compare them to the evidentiary breath technician, the person who operates the breath-testing instrument. There are currently 2,600 breath techs in Canada. We're

Justice committee  A drug recognition expert has specific training in the indicia of drugs as well as psychophysical tests and clinical indicators. Roadside, the person has been stopped for some reason. They are put through divided attention tests, the standardized field sobriety test battery. That

Justice committee  That evaluation is done by the police officer, the drug recognition expert, the trained police officer.

Justice committee  That's correct.

Justice committee  The evaluation is done in a controlled environment. The vast majority of the police officers working in Canada will never be trained as drug recognition experts. Again, it's a specialized field. What we do for training is attach an eight-hour block to the standardized field sob

Justice committee  That's correct. The evaluator is also a police officer, but he or she is the person who does the evaluation in its entirety. The only things done roadside are the three divided attention tests that comprise the standardized field sobriety test. As for the actual looking for drug