Justice committee  You're asking me if there's a certain concentration at which a drug will cause impairment. Is that correct?

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

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

Justice committee  That's correct regarding alcohol, yes.

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.

Justice committee  That's a specific offence, yes.

Justice committee  Yes.

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.

Justice committee  Yes, because in our context, alcohol is a drug. So it is alcohol and drugs or one or more drugs.

Justice committee  Yes.

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?

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

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

Justice committee  Yes. I'm not sure, though, exactly what question you're asking me specifically.

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