Justice committee  I would be happy to.

Justice committee  Yes, we have. There are a couple of things I would say. One is that in the last 15 years there has been a much more concerted effort by all governments, and I stress the words “all governments”. I'll give you an example. Over that period of time, more and more provinces have in

Justice committee  I think it's an interesting idea, just as they've built mechanisms in cars to accept cell phones, MP3 players, and those sorts of things, but if we're going to be asking auto makers to install these devices in their cars, are we also going to ask them to put in devices that will

Justice committee  All of these warrant our attention. But at a time when public resources are already stretched to the breaking point, we think it would be a serious misapplication of resources to lower the existing 0.08 criminal threshold to target the 5% who had BACs between 0.05 and 0.08, inste

Justice committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I'm Jan Westcott. I am the president and CEO of Spirits Canada. We're also known as the Association of Canadian Distillers. I appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today to talk about our industry’s views on reducing the incidence of im

Justice committee  For a whole host of reasons, we do not support lowering the Criminal Code threshold of impairment from 0.08 to 0.05 BAC. The fact is that all Canadian provinces and territories, with the exception of Quebec, whose legislature did consider and reject adopting such administrative m