We've done two studies on suspended drivers, mainly looking at people who were originally charged with impaired Criminal Code offences. We found that approximately 50% of convicted impaired drivers in Ontario never returned to the system. In Saskatchewan it was 30%.
It goes to what Dr. Mann was speaking about earlier. The apprehension rate of getting caught, whether you're driving impaired or while suspended, is very low in Canada because what police have to go through, even in a sobriety checkpoint, is cumbersome. They're still looking for reasonable suspicion.
Studies in the United States show that even when the person's BAC is over the legal limit of 0.08 or greater, 50% of them go through police spot checks undetected. People who are chronic alcoholics have a lower detection rate because they don't show the obvious signs of intoxication. This is again ample proof why we need random breath testing in this country. We need to give the police the tools to apprehend all kinds of drinking drivers and drive that number down. There's no doubt about that. It will also be very effective in keeping suspended drivers off the roadways.