Justice committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I have with me as well Mr. David Griffin, who is a former police officer and an executive officer with the Canadian Police Association. He'll be here to assist me today. The Canadian Police Association welcomes the opportunity to appear today befo

Justice committee  I'll mention the other factors, Mr. Chair, and won't go into detail. Certainly the 0.05 BAC is another issue that we would like considered. Again, as we have seen in many different countries, the European Union is also looking at adopting that type of circumstance, in those Euro

Justice committee  Thank you.

Justice committee  Actually, that was point 5, as you've seen in our presentation, and certainly there's the whole issue with the three hours. Just to make sure the committee fully understands this, the whole issue is around the fact that we have a limit. In fact, in 1999 the Criminal Code was am

Justice committee  Simply put, once the person was stopped, no test would be required at first. At that point, that would not give the police officers authority to take the person to the police station to conduct the second test.

Justice committee  The approved screening test. That would give us only one thing: we wouldn't need to administer the first test to the driver because that test would be automatically administered at a road block. At that point, the alcohol screening test would be administered in the field. If th

Justice committee  Yes. Let's look at what's also going on in Australia and New Zealand, which are democratic countries. Even though the constitutions of those two countries differ from that of Canada, I assume we could use the same tests there.

Justice committee  Absolutely.

Justice committee  I'll have David answer that, because Dave was a breathalyzer technician for a few years with Peel. He certainly has some experience in that area.

Justice committee  I believe MADD is actually providing a presentation as well. I do know that they provide report cards, if you want to call them that, on the different provinces and so on. I'm sure they could probably assist you with providing you with further information on which success stories

Justice committee  The CPA has no official position on the matter. Our suggestion is that the committee should specifically look at the Criminal Code rather than the administrative measure. That would be a possible change and an advantageous one, based information from other countries. The Europea

Justice committee  That's correct. For example, we mentioned the RIDE program, police road blocks set up at various locations in various cities. When someone was stopped, he would automatically be asked to undergo a test. If that person failed the test, he would then be taken to the police station

Justice committee  I'll try to answer your questions, Mr. Lemay. With regard to the first, concerning the statistics we presented, I'll definitely tell you where we got them. I want to point out that they include all modes of transportation. I'll send you that information. As for the second, from

Justice committee  Basically it's administrative, certainly, but to the extent of the consequences, if they're much higher, certainly we'll assist.

Justice committee  We would say random roadside breath testing, and you certainly have heard many of us talking about it. The second priority for us would be the hospital testing environment. It's more and more difficult for police officers to obtain warrants, and so on, to get those samples.