Interestingly, in that same study from the Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council, almost 23% said they would not call for emergency assistance, or did not call because they were afraid the police would confiscate their drugs that they may have on them. Of course, this bill would not protect them from that either.
I guess what I'm thinking of is if the purpose of this is to encourage people to call and give immunity to someone for breaking the law, because obviously simple possession of drugs is against the law, if you're willing to give immunity to a person in order to save the life of someone, would it not make sense to broaden that protection in a reasonable manner to capture the reasonably probable circumstances of the person at the scene to give them maximum opportunity to call the authorities in order to save that person?