Justice committee  No, this won't come into play. The Supreme Court has upheld the fact that Parliament can create criminal offences where the gravamen, the very essence of it, is impairment. If someone were to say, “Your Honour, I can't be held responsible for driving while impaired; I was too imp

Justice committee  Unfortunately, I don't feel that I'm in a position to be able to add anything. As I mentioned, this doesn't really affect impaired driving, so I have not taken the time to educate myself to a point where I feel that I could comfortably speak on this topic.

Justice committee  To be honest, I would have been surprised if we had been consulted. As I've said a few times now, this doesn't affect impaired driving, so it would be understandable that we would not be consulted on this, because, frankly, there would be no need to consult us on this.

Justice committee  We had a lot of confusion and a lot of questions, not only from our members but, because we are one of the bigger names in the anti-impaired driving scene, from the media. They questioned if this was going to mean that people could claim, “I can't be charged with driving impaired

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, for this opportunity to speak with you about Bill C-28. My name is Eric Dumschat, and I am the legal director for Mothers Against Drunk Driving Canada, or as it's more colloquially known, MADD Canada. I am pleased to have this

Justice committee  Thank you very much. Mr. Chair, members of the committee, we appreciate the opportunity to speak with you about Bill C-5 today. My name is Eric Dumschat. I am the legal director for Mothers Against Drunk Driving Canada. I am pleased to be sharing my time today with my colleague,