I think I need to preface the remarks I have with a few observations. The first observation is that, in referring to “vehicular”, when the offences in the Criminal Code speak of motor vehicles, vessels, aircraft, and railway equipment, it seems to narrow the current offence to simply vehicles.
When it comes to the word “homicide”, currently the Criminal Code distinguishes between homicides that are culpable under the criminal law and homicides that are pure accidents and non-culpable under the criminal law. In the area of culpable homicides, we have murder, we have infanticide, and all others are manslaughter. It could be said that the proposal in the bill would diffuse the current wording and put it into a more general term, “homicide”, rather than referring to the specific offences of driving while impaired or operating a vessel, railway equipment, or aircraft while impaired.