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"When most Canadians think of impaired driving, they think of drunk driving," [Stephen Harper] said. "But increasingly, police have to contend with drug-impaired driving: operating a vehicle while under the influence of narcotics. Just like a drunk driver, a drug-impaired driver presents a danger to himself or herself and to others."
"There are technological challenges in terms of testing for certain kinds of drugs," Harper acknowledged. "(But) there are things we can do and will be doing, and work will continue on the development of technology as well.""It has a great deterrence effect just making this public," he said. "As people start getting arrested and charged and convicted under this law, it will make more and more people think twice before driving drug-impaired."See the full content of this document
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Drugged-Driver Crackdown Coming: Harper
By Chris Wattie
KITCHENER, Ont. -- The Conservative government will introduce legislation this month to crack down on drivers who get behind the ...See the full content of this document
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