I'd identify a serious concern. Notwithstanding the accuracy of DRE testing, there has to be a procedure in place to do it. What we heard from Mr. Solomon earlier is that police are reluctant to lay impaired charges because the defences take so long and they have to spend so much time in court.
This system isn't going to change that at all. In fact, it's going to increase the amount of time required to defend each case, because as a defence counsel you're going to have to challenge the standardized field sobriety test results and the officer's ability to do that. You're going to have to challenge the DRE test results and the officer's ability to do that, along with the training and the procedures they've gone through. And you're then going to have to challenge the toxicology screening results.
I think what you're going to see happen is what Mr. Solomon suggests is happening now, in that police are going to be reluctant to go down this road and lay these charges. They're going to do what they do, which is issue administrative roadside suspensions for 24 hours—at least in British Columbia—and not lay the charges.
So there are two pieces. One is that we don't have the people to implement the program. The provinces certainly don't have the money to implement the program currently. And the program itself is going to cause a further backlog in the criminal justice system, which is going to lead to more and more problems with the courts.