I'm not speaking for the government, but it seems to me that what it was trying to do was to deal with the possibility that somebody who gets into an accident, for instance, will tell the police they've had a couple of drinks since the accident because they wanted to calm down. I had to ask one of the solicitors for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and she said she had done many, many impaired driving cases and had hardly heard of this. I didn't practise criminal law for that long, but I remember a couple of cases where that's exactly what happened: somebody is allegedly impaired, they get into an accident, they call the towing people around, and then when the police come to see them they're having a couple of shots because they say they want to try to relax after the terrible thing that happened to them. This definitely complicates the ability of the police to do this. Again, I believe what is proposed in this legislation, and I support that. Whether or not the Canadian Civil Liberties Association has ever seen a case like this, I know myself that I have seen a couple cases where people have made that claim, and it was good enough to get off the impaired driving charge.
On October 4th, 2017. See this statement in context.