Thank you.
Thank you for coming. It's been very helpful, actually.
My interest and my question will be directed toward driving with drugs, and catching those people.
Mr. Rosenthal, I think you actually convinced me on your point. I don't want to talk about the possession one, although I'm getting convinced on that too, actually.
Not to the bar--because you didn't comment on this--but to the others, I want to change the attitude. It seems as though your attitude is to find one little thing wrong, whereas I want to have the positive attitude. We want to try to save one or two children's lives by catching some impaired drivers.
I agree, of course, that we want to stop all impaired drivers, and for all reasons, but right now we're having an effect on alcohol-impaired drivers. The next step with drugs.... And I'm not sure why people keep mentioning marijuana. There are all sorts of more serious drugs that can impair people more seriously. So I'm talking about all drugs.
We have a huge problem with drugs and alcohol. Over half of crimes are committed under the influence, or to get substances, so we've had quite an effect. Every criminal expert that's come to us has said that the chance of getting caught is a major deterrent. So if we can do something at all on drugs that works technically, legally, I think we're going to stop some people, including children, from getting killed.
My understanding of the provisions would be that you would do some type of roadside test. It would be different from alcohol, because cocaine and all the other drugs are different from alcohol in their effects. But you would do some type of test that would then allow a blood test that would hopefully, scientifically at least, be accurate enough to get convictions and prove that someone was impaired.
Is that not how the system would work? Would that not save a number of lives, as does the similar system we have for alcohol? What I'm looking for is a way to try to catch these people and save lives. I'm not looking for the reasons why we can't do it but for how we should go about doing it.