Bill C-226 (Historical)

Impaired Driving Act

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (offences in relation to conveyances) and the Criminal Records Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts

This bill was last introduced in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session, which ended in September 2019.

Sponsor

Steven Blaney  Conservative

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Dead, as of May 3, 2017
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the provisions of the Criminal Code that govern offences in relation to conveyances. The amendments, among other things,
(a) harmonize the prohibitions and penalties for offences in relation to the operation of conveyances;
(b) increase the penalties for repeat offences in relation to the operation of conveyances;
(c)  modernize the procedures for determining whether a person’s ability to operate a conveyance is impaired by a drug, and for analyzing breath samples to determine a person’s blood alcohol concentration;
(d) provide for rules governing the disclosure of information with respect to the results of analyzing breath samples; and
(e)  recognize that evaluating officers are experts in determining whether a person’s ability to operate a conveyance is impaired by a drug.
The enactment also amends the Criminal Records Act to remove the offences of impaired driving and failure or refusal to comply with a demand as exceptions to the offences that result in a record suspension ceasing to have effect.
Finally, the enactment makes consequential amendments to those Acts and to other Acts.

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Votes

May 3, 2017 Passed That the Eighth Report of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security (recommendation not to proceed further with Bill C-226, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (offences in relation to conveyances) and the Criminal Records Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts), presented on Thursday, March 9, 2017, be concurred in.

Public Safety and National Security Committee, on Sept. 27, 2016

  • Greg Yost, Counsel, Criminal Law Policy Section, Department of Justice
  • Carole Morency, Director General and Senior General Counsel, Criminal Law Policy Section, Department of Justice
  • Talal Dakalbab, Executive Director General, Parole Board of Canada

Public Safety and National Security Committee, on Sept. 29, 2016

  • Micheal Vonn, Policy Director, British Columbia Civil Liberties Association
  • Abby Deshman, Director, Public Safety Program, Canadian Civil Liberties Association
  • Michael Spratt, Member, Former Director and Member of the Legislative Committee, Criminal Lawyers' Association
  • Daniel Therrien, Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
  • Thomas Brown, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, As an Individual
  • Marie Claude Ouimet, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, As an Individual

Public Safety and National Security Committee, on Feb. 6, 2017