Justice committee  I'd like to give you a graphic example from this spring with respect to human-powered craft and the risks involved. This occurred on the Muskoka River near Bracebridge. A father and an eight-year-old were out paddling. The father is alleged to have been impaired. The canoe roll

Justice committee  Yes. I have some notes from the Ontario Provincial Police. Since 2002, the OPP have investigated 144 fatal accidents involving non-motorized boats, with a loss of 160 lives, and 32.6% of these reports determined that alcohol or impairment was involved. Those charges would have

Justice committee  Is it one of the three people in the country who haven't been out on a boat? I don't know.

Justice committee  Interestingly, the people who responded to this were two OPP officers on highway duty. They found a guy wandering along the side of the road obviously in a confused state, and they discovered that there was a child in the water. They attempted to get into the water to rescue this

Justice committee  Unfortunately, the level of marine policing across Canada varies dramatically. The Ontario Provincial Police has one of the largest on-water police forces in North America. The Sûreté du Québec has some. After that, it gets pretty hit and miss, and as you say quite rightly, it'

Justice committee  Certainly, the easiest way to do marine policing is at the launch ramp before the boat gets wet—“blow here”—or to catch them when they are coming back. In Ontario, the Liquor Licence Act says that you can only have alcohol on board to be consumed if it's a residence, which requ