Thank you, Mr. Chair.
To answer your question about what we should do, first, I think we need to continue what we have been doing in terms of the visibility of enforcement as a general deterrence for the population as a whole so they don't go back to the bad habits they once had.
What do we do for those more narrow areas, such as youth, for example? We know that youth may not yet be dependent on alcohol but will drink occasionally to excess on weekends and so on. In rural areas, the problem we have is one of apprehension. People do not believe they're going to be apprehended. We often say that in rural areas, it's not drinking and driving, it's drinking while driving. As a result, these people either know where to go or do not believe they're going to get caught. We need to increase there. We need to continue our work, in terms of prevention, for these folks.
We also need to work with the provinces, and I think we said that in our brief. For example, Ontario has announced that they are going to increase suspensions from 12 or 24 hours to three days a week and then have more severe sanctions as we go through under the highway safety code. We think this is going to be effective. We would like all provinces to standardize so that for national prevention, we can advertise, we can promote, to all Canadians.
If we can get there, that will have an impact. I believe, like the professor, that the certainty of being apprehended is far more effective for many of those folks than the penalty down the road, whether it be a driver's licence suspension or death, in some cases.
Thank you.