Liberal amendment 1 would also amend clause 3, which we just amended with government amendment 2.
This would amend in order to ensure that when the drug recognition expert is carrying out the second phase of evaluation of someone's sobriety, determining whether or not the individual is impaired, in particular by drugs, a video recording of said evaluation would take place. The government in Bill C-32 already states, under subclause 3(3), proposed subsection 254(2.1), that on the road where the standardized roadside sobriety test takes place:
a peace officer may make a video recording of a performance of the physical coordination tests referred to in paragraph (2)(a).
My amendment would require, at the police station when they're undergoing the second phase of the evaluation, that the evaluation be recorded by video. And given that all or most police stations are already equipped with video equipment for interrogations, etc., it would certainly not be a hardship.