Justice committee  Yes, thank you. If you find the paper that we submitted, annex 1 looks at international experience with RBT. I won't run through it other than to give you some examples. It was introduced in Ireland in July 2006. It was credited with reducing the number of people killed on Iri

Justice committee  I'll just say with respect to the 0.05 issue, in the study “Relative Risk of Fatal Crash Involvement by BAC, Age and Gender”, done by the United States Department of Transportation, they actually divided males and females by three age groups. If you are a male at 0.050 to 0.079 t

Justice committee  I can download this from the Internet again. It's right on NHTSA's site, so I'll provide it.

Justice committee  The only thing done in Bill C-2 is to have a 0.8 causing death or causing bodily harm. This remains the same penalty whether you're convicted of refusal or over 0.8 in a simplicitor case.

Justice committee  That was intended to address the incentive if there was an accident. This suggestion, which is done in the United States, is to encourage the person to actually provide a breath alcohol sample, because when they consult their lawyer, presumably, and they say, “What happens if I r

Justice committee  I'll be presenting. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Justice committee  Mr. Chairman, members of the standing committee, I trust you've received the paper that Mr. Pruden and I prepared, “Impaired Driving Issues”. It was submitted through the clerk about two weeks ago, I do believe. Between us, Mr. Pruden and I have more than 40 years of dealing wi

Justice committee  Well, that's unfortunate, because my remarks are focused on the paper that we prepared. Mr. Pruden and I are well aware that progress on impaired driving requires a coordinated approach, including enforcement, education, treatment of those who are alcohol- and drug-dependent, an

Justice committee  In any event, Mr. Pruden and I are not experts on toxicology or on social science research. We rely on the advice of experts in those fields. The paper is therefore restricted to the possible amendments to the Criminal Code. It makes no recommendations and is intended to assist t

Justice committee  One day I'm going to ask Paul Saint-Denis how he gets to be in Bali when this comes up and I have to substitute. This is not a government motion, obviously. It is, however, not unusual, I would imagine, for a government and the minister responsible to ask, if this thing becomes

Justice committee  If I may just address what you said, the normal drafting procedures used when you're dealing with a relatively small section--and this is a small section--would be to replace it all and then underline what is new. It makes it a heck of a lot easier to read than to say, “adding, a

Justice committee  That's correct, yes. I don't actually know what are the various precursors used in the making of ecstasy and what schedules they appear in and how many of them are fairly normal chemicals that have a lot of other uses. Perhaps the RCMP can comment on that. There are an awful lo

Justice committee  If I may, we suggest saying item 18 because it refers to “Methamphetamine (N,a-dimethylbenzeneethanamine), its salts, derivatives, isomers and analogues and salts of derivatives, isomers and analogues”. It's sort of like methamphetamine and anything else that's pretty darn close

Justice committee  Well, the amendment put forward right now is about selling or importing anything, and would cover any chemical there is. If you could establish that a chemical wasn't a precursor drug, and you haven't got around to putting it on the list yet, but know that it is one of the ingred

Justice committee  I rather suspect those precursors are already listed, but I'm not the expert on how you put together ecstasy and which are the precursor drugs and whether they're listed. It would be Health Canada that would tell us which drugs ought to be on the list and which schedule they shou