Yes, I will. Thank you.
The Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators, or CCMTA, wishes to thank you for the opportunity to speak to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights on the issue of alcohol-impaired driving.
CCMTA is a non-profit organization comprised of transportation representatives from the federal, provincial, and territorial governments and includes associate members from the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and other government departments. CCMTA reports through a board of directors to the Council of Ministers Responsible for Transportation and Highway Safety.
CCMTA oversees Canada's road safety vision 2010, otherwise known as RSV 2010, which targets a 30% reduction in deaths and serious injuries on Canadian roads by 2010. RSV 2010 has a number of soft targets related to the issues of road safety, including an impaired driving target of a 40% decrease in the percentage of road users fatally or seriously injured in crashes involving a drinking driver.
Data from 1987 to 2005 indicate that there have been improvements in the number of fatally injured drivers who had been drinking, but much of the improvement occurred in the 1980s and 1990s. Over the past seven years the rate of improvement has plateaued.