‘Slap on the wrist’: Critics call on Ford government to scrap impaired driving rule

Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.Ford governmentAs first revealed by Global News, Ontario’s attorney general issued a directive to Crown prosecutors during the height of COVID-19 that allowed them to withdraw certain impaired driving charges in exchange for a guilty plea under the Highway Traffic Act.

“Over 10,000 impaired driving charges laid by the OPP this year alone,” Schmidt said. “Compared to we’re seeing an increase of 16 per cent of impaired driving occurrences.” “It probably reduces time how much time are you actually reducing? They can’t say. How often are people re-offending? The government can’t say. So I can’t say, none of us can say, it is effective,” Ontario Liberal MPP John Fraser stressed.Canada lays new sanctions on Russia over North Korean weapons transfer

But Kristyn Wong-Tam, the Ontario NDP’s critic for the attorney general portfolio, questioned the government’s rationale. “Too many families in Ontario have had their lives torn apart by the careless and shameful actions of impaired drivers,” Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria said, introducing the new measures.

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