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Justice committee You're asking me if there's a certain concentration at which a drug will cause impairment. Is that correct?
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Shirley Treacy
Justice committee No, there isn't the literature there is for alcohol. We do have to remember that there are two sections in the Criminal Code about impaired driving: one of them is the over 80 charge; the other is impaired from drugs or alcohol, which means that it doesn't matter what the alcohol
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Shirley Treacy
Justice committee Yes, there actually are studies that have looked at that. The problem is, because there are pharmaceutical medications that people are on, there's the issue of tolerance. So I don't know that we'll ever get to a point where you can say that a specific concentration of drug is g
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Shirley Treacy
Justice committee That's correct regarding alcohol, yes.
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Shirley Treacy
Justice committee Well, yes. Actually, anything can be a poison if you take enough of it. Yes, your body does think of alcohol as a poison; it tries to get rid of it. Sure.
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Shirley Treacy
Justice committee That's a specific offence, yes.
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Shirley Treacy
Justice committee Yes.
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Shirley Treacy
Justice committee That's true, yes. The drugs can be prescription or non-prescription drugs—things you buy in a pharmacy without a prescription, like Gravol—as well as illicit drugs. They can all affect your ability to drive.
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Shirley Treacy
Justice committee Yes, because in our context, alcohol is a drug. So it is alcohol and drugs or one or more drugs.
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Shirley Treacy
Justice committee Yes.
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Shirley Treacy
Justice committee Are you asking me to tell you about the 12 steps for the program? This is a two-part thing, but for the first part of the question, are you asking me to describe the 12 steps?
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Shirley Treacy
Justice committee There are 12 steps in this process. I mentioned earlier that they've already failed the standardized field sobriety test at the roadside. They go back to the police station, and then a person who is trained in drug recognition evaluation does a number of eye tests, looks at a num
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Shirley Treacy
Justice committee There is a difference between alcohol and drugs, yes. In detection it's relatively simple to use a screening device to determine whether the person has alcohol in their body, but for drugs there is no such testing roadside; there is not an instrument like that. It means you have
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Shirley Treacy
Justice committee Yes. I'm not sure, though, exactly what question you're asking me specifically.
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Shirley Treacy
Justice committee That would be correct, yes. For a paragraph 253(a) charge, there first of all has to be evidence of impaired driving. If they don't feel it's alcohol and they think it's drugs, if this legislation were to pass, the person would then be demanded to do roadside screening, like the
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Shirley Treacy