Justice committee  At a mandatory alcohol screening checkpoint, like at current selective breath-testing checkpoints, the practice is that as cars come along, they're waved in. That doesn't change at all. The difference is that instead of the officer coming up to the car and asking you for your veh

Justice committee  If there is no lineup, that is correct.

Justice committee  They're not waved in.

Justice committee  It is just like what currently happens at a sobriety checkpoint. Exactly the same process of stopping occurs.

Justice committee  That's correct. Right now it's up to the subjective judgment of the officer.

Justice committee  If you had mandatory alcohol screening, you wouldn't need selective breath testing.

Justice committee  I wouldn't exclude it, but the studies in western Europe, the EU, and I think also Switzerland indicate that when you test every driver stopped, it significantly reduces impaired driving, deaths, and injuries further because of its deterring impact.

Justice committee  Currently the proposal is to have oral fluid testing based on the officer having reasonable grounds to suspect the presence of drugs.

Justice committee  I think the difference is that the oral fluid testing there is in an earlier stage of development. It is felt, I understand, that we're not yet ready to make that mandatory. Some jurisdictions in Australia already have mandatory oral fluid testing.

Justice committee  I would find it quite surprising if the police implemented mandatory alcohol screening in a manner inconsistent with what every other country does, or what the vast majority of other countries do. That is, every driver passing along, unless there is a lineup, is waved in, and tha

Justice committee  I guess we can always say, just as when I pass through security at the Ottawa airport or when I pass through security here, that an officer could somehow choose to be more aggressive or misuse their power. But that's not the way the system works. Mandatory alcohol screening limit

Justice committee  The legislation says you can't ask for a breath sample unless you are lawfully stopped, so if the stop is not lawful, then the demand will also be not lawful. Again, this is best practice in terms of mandatory alcohol screening. Best practice in numerous dozens of countries arou

Justice committee  It's my understanding that they use mobile alcohol screening as well, so it's not just at stationary positions that they can demand a breath sample. All of the leading researchers have concluded that the ability to conduct alcohol screening when drivers are stopped outside of so

Justice committee  There are studies on how long it takes, from the time they're stopped to the time a person is released from what is called an RBT, random breath testing, checkpoint. The average is two minutes. In fact, I drove through one of them with an academic colleague. The testing took 30 s

Justice committee  That is correct; 18,500 to 6,500, I think. They introduced RBT with what they would call mandatory alcohol testing in 2006. In 2011, there were additional changes to their law, going from .08 to .05. However, when you had only the RBT change, charges dropped from 16,000 to 9,000.