Justice committee  That's right.

Justice committee  To be honest, I'm not sure. I can check with some of the crowns who have dealt with them. B.C., in particular, would have an idea, but I can't say for sure.

Justice committee  I know that over two dozen of the trained officers have been declared experts by the courts. Overall, and I'm guesstimating here, 150 or so would have gone to trial.

Justice committee  Well, the sobriety tests themselves are divided attention tests. They don't mimic what you do driving, but they divide your attention between what your mental process is and the physical tests that are being done. As with driving, you're multi-tasking. These tests are simply to h

Justice committee  My apologies. There are three tests. The first is horizontal gaze nystagmus. Horizontal gaze nystagmus is the involuntary jerking of the eyes. Everyone has it, but some drugs enhance it to the point at which it's readily visible. The second test is a walk and turn test. That's

Justice committee  The steps for drug recognition evaluation are as follows. First, we take a breath sample to rule out alcohol as the primary cause of impairment. We then speak to the arresting officer to find out what the arresting officer saw at the scene. Generally speaking, we're looking a

Justice committee  That's right. I believe the only province where we haven't had a conviction is Quebec, and that is because there hasn't been a case go to court with the DRE yet.

Justice committee  Primarily we're looking at prescription drugs, prescription pain killers such as oxycodone, codeine, and morphine. Cannabis is very prevalent, as well as the central nervous system depressant category or family of drugs. But driving-wise, what we've not seen a lot of are inhala

Justice committee  Prescription drugs, yes, either over the counter or by prescription.

Justice committee  Not to date. We have had some with methamphetamine, but for the most part we're still looking at what would be termed as the softer drugs.

Justice committee  Well, the sobriety tests are done the same, whether it's for alcohol, drugs, a medical problem, or fatigue. The tests were evaluated in the United States to a blood alcohol concentration of 80 milligrams percent, or 0.08, but the effects of the impairment are the same, depending

Justice committee  No. Some were straight driving, some were bodily injury, and there were some as a result of crashes where fatalities were involved.

Justice committee  Initially we have to have some reason to stop a vehicle, whether it's through a road check or driving evidence. If there is any evidence that the person may be impaired, we can, with this legislation, make a demand for the person to participate in the standardized field sobriety

Justice committee  When we entered the program in 1995, we anticipated, obviously, problems in court. Since that time, we've had convictions in virtually every province. We've had the courts declare the evaluator as an expert in the process, symptomatology, and determination of the drug category. I

Justice committee  For the most part, we've been using urine. The problem with blood is that we don't have medical practitioners or medical personnel on site in the vast majority of the lock-ups where we do the testing, so as a result we'd have to take the person out of a secure facility, and take