Justice committee  Certainly not as primary evidence in court. I don't think you can correlate passive detection with blood alcohol in a person's body. It certainly gives you further evidence that there is alcohol in the vicinity, and the likelihood is that it is coming from his body. However, as I

Justice committee  I am not aware of the testing that has been done in other jurisdictions. This is a brand new area for my committee. We would certainly, as one our avenues, look into that. I can tell you that the two approved screening devices I have with me are the ones most commonly utilized

Justice committee  It's fair to say that I'm confident they work. I've tried them myself. I know that they will detect alcohol. However, developing standards for instruments or devices that test environment is very different from developing a standard for testing blood alcohol by way of a direct an

Justice committee  It is a fair assessment. I make that submission based on my knowledge of how long it takes us to do our approvals now on approved screening devices and approved instruments. Through no fault of the volunteers on my committee, it takes quite a long time to get those done. We do

Justice committee  Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for having me. The alcohol test committee, or the ATC, of the Canadian Society of Forensic Science has provided scientific advice to the Minister of Justice about detection and quantification of blood alcohol concentrations for th