The potential legal and policy implications of lowering the criminal code BAC limit in Canada.

Author(s)
Solomon, R. & Chamberlain, E.
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Abstract

This paper examines the potential legal implications of lowering the Criminal Code BAC limit in Canada, particularly for enforcement, prosecution and sentencing. It also examines how a lower federal BAC limit would interact with various provincial and territorial highway traffic statutes, which impose short-term roadside licence suspensions on drivers with BACs of 0.05% or higher, or who are believed to be impaired. While none of the implications poses a barrier to lowering the Criminal Code limit, certain complementary legal changes would make this lower limit more effective and easier to enforce. (Author/publisher) For the covering abstract of the conference see ITRD Abstract No. E201067.

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C 28013 (In: C 27945) /83 / ITRD E211115 (also at CD-ROM C 27890/C27945/C28028)
Source

In: Alcohol, drugs and traffic safety : proceedings of the 16th ICADTS International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety T'2002, Montreal, Canada, August 4-9, 2002, Volume 2, p. 711-716, 10 ref.

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