Mr. Speaker, I am going to stop briefly. The hon. member from British Columbia says it is fascinating. I know it is fascinating. The point is the hon. member understands what I am getting at. However, there are a number of other hon. members who do not. With the best of intentions, they do not understand how the law is formed, how the law is practised or how the law is administered. I do know that the hon. member does understand that. Therefore I appreciate his response that these things, while somewhat dry, are indeed fascinating.
This prohibition, as I mentioned, is a criminal law penalty and is separate from any provincial or territorial driver's licence suspension which might be extremely severe as well, depending on the province, and rightly so.
I should note that we have before the House-