Here's one lawyer that deals a lot with DUI's that believes this will stand up to challenges in court. Cynical me wonders who bought Drager stock as we will be buying a crapton of straws. About 250K tickets a year, straws are in the ballpark of $1 each. Some people will get more than one ticket but some will get none so lets call it $250K a year on disposable plastic straws. JT will $#!t a brick. In all seriousness, this a good application of those crappy paper monstrosities we are forced to use. Used for a few seconds in a moist environment and then garbage.
CCLA has their panties in a bunch as expected. When they were headed for years by someone that drove drunk and killed someone, I would expect nothing less.
In a release Wednesday, the OPP confirmed they’re now conducing Mandatory Alcohol Screening (MAS) “as part of every traffic stop.”
toronto.citynews.ca
"“I think that we will lose (a legal challenge) on the basis that it’s constitutionally sound and these cases at the Supreme Court of Canada and Ontario Court of Appeal, always seem to side in favour of the victim and the public because everybody has had it (with drunk driving),” he said."
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