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Justice committee  I think in practice that will not be the case. In practice when there is a line of vehicles stopped, the police will, because of the time involved, certainly wave certain people through, and certain profiling will take place. You and I would probably be waved through, and other i

September 18th, 2017Committee meeting

Kathryn Pentz

Justice committee  With the resources needed for it to be mandatory, I don't see that it will be possible.

September 18th, 2017Committee meeting

Kathryn Pentz

Justice committee  Yes, but again, it's the enforcement. How are you going to enforce that that's how it's employed?

September 18th, 2017Committee meeting

Kathryn Pentz

Justice committee  The difficulty with per se testing is that drugs affect everybody differently, so it's not going to be possible, at least from my understanding having talked to the experts, to say that everyone will be impaired at a particular level. The only answer to that, unless there is some

September 18th, 2017Committee meeting

Kathryn Pentz

Justice committee  Again, from the CBA perspective, we haven't really taken a position on that aspect of it. Again, going back to my comment, it's not only the constitutionality of it. We have to also look at the implementation and what we're going to get out of it. I have a short paper here from

September 18th, 2017Committee meeting

Kathryn Pentz

September 18th, 2017Committee meeting

Kathryn Pentz

Justice committee  This isn't the only part that we feel is objectionable. There are other sections that we feel—

September 18th, 2017Committee meeting

Kathryn Pentz

Justice committee  We haven't specifically addressed that in our submission, so the CBA does not have a position on it, but I can speak to that from my own personal perspective. The difficulty with the interlock program is that while it is certainly a great program, it is also an expensive progra

September 18th, 2017Committee meeting

Kathryn Pentz

Justice committee  Not particularly, because again, we have the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. That certainly—

September 18th, 2017Committee meeting

Kathryn Pentz

Justice committee  Professor Solomon speaks of people stopping and complying with the demand instantly. Knowing the clientele that I deal with, I seriously doubt that this will be the case. I can envision that the testing will take a longer period of time. We will then have more refusals, because p

September 18th, 2017Committee meeting

Kathryn Pentz

Justice committee  Thank you. The criminal justice section of the Canadian Bar Association is pleased to comment on Bill C-46, which proposes to amend Canada's impaired driving legislation. The section recognizes the importance of road safety and the need to ensure that Canadian law offers effecti

September 18th, 2017Committee meeting

Kathryn Pentz