Justice committee  I gather the prohibition against it is the cost. It is $150 a month, and it is really prohibitive for a lot of people.

Justice committee  Could I just respond to that? We mentioned the RIDE program in Ontario. I hate to sound parochial, but we follow what goes on in Ontario. If you look at the 600,000 cars that were stopped, it would be very interesting to find out how many of those people took off--very few. I

Justice committee  No.

Justice committee  The Canada Safety Council published some pretty good research, a paper, a couple of years ago. I think we referenced it in our paper. It's called, Low-BAC Drivers and the Law. We call upon the provinces, we call upon Quebec, to get on board with administrative licence suspensio

Justice committee  I think there were so many things on their plate. If you looked at the amendments to the highway traffic safety act, there were a lot there. I'm optimistic that they will. I've had conversations with the media in Quebec and they say this may be the next step in the next year. I

Justice committee  I think it's important to emphasize that there's no federal criminal legislation in the United States affecting impaired driving; it's all in the states.

Justice committee  We have a 0.05 limit in Canada, in every jurisdiction except Quebec. In the other countries you refer to, it's a non-criminal 0.05; it's an administrative suspension.

Justice committee  I think New South Wales was the last to go down to 0.05. They were at 0.08. I think it was within the last couple of years. I might be wrong on that statement, but one of them did.

Justice committee  No.

Justice committee  Could I just make a point? Quebec does not have administrative licence suspensions, but they just went through proposed amendments to the traffic code, and that was one of the things on their agenda. That did not go through, but I would say that within the next year you will see