Thank you.
Thank you to the witnesses.
Certainly on the question of mandatory breath testing, I approach this with an open mind but a considerable degree of scepticism. We are talking about a very significant change in the law. We're talking about something that will have a significant impact in terms of a serious infringement on individual liberty. When we talk about reasonable suspicion, we're talking about what is, at the end of the day, a very low standard.
Mr. De Luca, you made the comment that the question that should be asked is whether mandatory breath-testing would be an improvement from the current selective breath-testing system. I agree that it's an important question to ask and that it needs to be answered. But I would submit that there's a further question that needs to be asked, even if that first question were answered in the affirmative that indeed mandatory breath-testing would have some positive effect. That's to be balanced against how many individuals who are innocent will have their rights interfered with in order to be able to identify what, at the end of the day, is a relatively small number of individuals who get behind the wheel impaired and cause deaths and injuries. I mean, that group, that demographic, tends to be made up of repeat offenders and hard-core drunk drivers. It seems to me that mandatory breath testing may not be the right approach in order to be able to get at those people.
I'd be interested in your comments.