Justice committee  The regulation process is one that's used in other countries, including the United Kingdom. The science is rapidly evolving with respect to this. There is a great deal of research going on. We rely on the Drugs and Driving Committee for its advice. It examined five nanograms and

Justice committee  We certainly considered random drug screening. First of all, when you're looking at the Australian experience, it is the presence of it, so finding it in your oral fluid is actually an offence. It's in your body if it's in your oral fluid. When we looked at the state of the techn

Justice committee  The Australians do have zero tolerance. It is an illegal drug in Australia. They don't want you mixing it with your driving, so it is definitely zero tolerance. We find it in your oral fluid. Now you must recall that oral fluid is going to reflect recent use, because taking a bro

Justice committee  The reasoning was that the criminal law was aimed at those who were endangering the public. We have impaired operation of a motor vehicle. We don't have impaired operation of bicycles, scooters, etc. The current definition of vessel isn't a definition. It just says that it inclu

Justice committee  I am not aware. I asked an articling student in some haste to try to find some cases, and she did not find any for me.

Justice committee  The witnesses referred to the Stellato case, and the Stellato case is referred to in the material that the government has put out on its backgrounder, etc. In that case, the Ontario Court of Appeal was deciding between two streams of authorities, one of which said that you needed

Justice committee  The study is a footnote to one of these documents. I will get it to you. The reality is that people will lie to the police as to whether they have been drinking. On the subject of checking things, I do know that in Quebec, the person I deal with there says that they set up outs

Justice committee  The studies we've seen have all shown that there has been a higher percentage of people with marijuana in their system involved in fatal accidents. This is a problem in that we do not have causation studies. We do not have what level they were at, only “presence of”. They are not

Justice committee  It's hardly a statement. It's that the study “Drinking Drivers Missed at Sobriety Checkpoints” is referred to in footnote 21 on page 18 of the backgrounder. Annex 5 of our backgrounder has about nine studies from around the world on the effectiveness of mandatory alcohol screenin

Justice committee  Well, the State of Victoria is a relatively small state, and the city of Melbourne has about 80% of the population, if not more. They have booze buses they set up that are regularly pulling everybody off the major highways. A situation like that might apply in Toronto or Montreal

Justice committee  Possibly, yes. It's more difficult in many other locations, but that is also the state I was referring to regarding the review of random testing time, which can't be in the same place all the time. Doing those tests over and over, if people are driving around you, is not going t

Justice committee  There are huge practical differences between Ireland, a small country with a population of about four and a half or five million, and Canada, a huge country. Large parts of our country have small detachments and the resources required to run full check stop programs are enormous.

Justice committee  Everybody is turning to me. There have been a lot of studies in Australia when this was introduced in the mid-1980s to early 1990s. In many cases, as I understand it, they had already tried what we would call an approved screening device test, and that wasn't having the results

Justice committee  In fact, the offence as written today is that a person commits the offence who, while fleeing from the police, drives dangerously and injures or kills someone. The only purpose of that specific offence was to raise the maximum penalty, in the case of bodily harm, from 10 years to

Justice committee  The drugs and driving committee has been examining standards used in other countries, for example, in the United Kingdom, to validate the technology and authorize drug screening devices for use. It is developing standards, looking at those to see if they're applicable to Canada.