Justice committee  I don't believe it causes a difficulty to say “drugs or alcohol”. If they are combined, one or the other would cover it.

Justice committee  I don't believe so.

Justice committee  My initial reaction is that I simply don't know enough about what provinces may use this for. They have procedures that could be based on a person who was acquitted of over 80 charge, but they have the BAC, or the person was charged on a basis of a BAC of 60 combined with somethi

Justice committee  My initial reaction is yes, they would be involved in these proceedings. I don't know how things operate in Quebec, I'm afraid. I'm a Manitoba lawyer by training. In Manitoba they would know.

Justice committee  There are, actually, a lot of possible unintended consequences to this amendment. One of the first problems we see is that there is an appeal period. You've been acquitted, and you have to go back to the court to say that the appeal period has gone by. The judge is not going to

Justice committee  While it's certainly true that the drugs and driving committee does not recommend to the government that sweat should be included at this stage, the technology is basically in its infancy. Its utility is limited. We do have blood, which is the gold standard. This is the one that'

Justice committee  That is correct.

Justice committee  We have various time limits. For the mandatory screening, they must have the approved screening device with them. Use of the approved screening device on suspicion must be within three hours. However, for the breath test to try to establish an “over 80” offence, there is no time

Justice committee  Yes, they do exist now.

Justice committee  This is actually just modern drafting technique. If you look at the existing provision dealing with this, you see that it refers to six sections of the Criminal Code, the Aeronautics Act, and the Railway Safety Act federally. There is not a mention of any shipping act or anythi

Justice committee  We've referred this to the alcohol test committee. You heard from the chair of the alcohol test committee that this would not happen in the real world—

Justice committee  —but it could.... We are awaiting the response from the alcohol test committee, which I believe will be writing you, but my expectation is that they will say that wouldn't hurt anything because they would have to start from some number.

Justice committee  It's based actually on a model in the DNA Identification Act where Parliament set out why it does this thing and its confidence in various things. The point is there have been disclosure wars going on ever since we tried to eliminate the “two-beer” defence, and the requests for

Justice committee  Kathy is looking at me to start, unfortunately.

Justice committee  Unfortunately, I missed that part of his testimony. It was pouring rain out there and I decided to wait for it to break. What they said is not what I've been hearing from the Drugs and Driving Committee over the last several years, or what you've heard. The equipment is becoming