We certainly considered random drug screening. First of all, when you're looking at the Australian experience, it is the presence of it, so finding it in your oral fluid is actually an offence. It's in your body if it's in your oral fluid. When we looked at the state of the technology and compared it with approved screening devices, we found approved screening devices give you a virtual certainty of what the person's blood alcohol concentration is. As you know, concentration in the oral fluid does not equate necessarily to the concentration in the blood, so it's not as useful a test. But even more important is that you have to keep the person there. It said five minutes. The information I've seen, when they did the pilot testing of some these, said it was an average of about eight minutes. Frankly, that causes serious charter concerns about the arbitrary detention of a person. Maybe the legislation will get changed later, when the Drugs and Driving Committee tells us things have improved on the technology, etc., but for now we do not believe it's justifiable under the charter to hold someone for that long for this test.
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