25-09-2017 20:57 via ottawacitizen.com

Dawson: Liberals' impaired driving bill has civil liberties problems

The veil of grief and the badge of noble intent aren’t guarantors of improved policymaking. Just because a law is meant to do good – as with the federal Liberals’ reforms to impaired driving legislation – doesn’t mean it will. 
Between 1986 and 2015, there was a 65-per-cent drop in impaired driving rates, says Statistics Canada. Nevertheless, around 1,000 people are killed annually in Canada, and some 60,000 injured, according to the best estimates of
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