XPost: can.politics, bc.politics, van.general   
   XPost: vic.general   
   From: erik@null.ca   
      
   Alan Baker wrote...   
   >   
   > In article ,   
   >  "Çons®36%" <Çons®36%@all.ca> wrote:   
   >   
   > > On 16/01/2012 9:57 AM, simplicity wrote:   
   > >   
   > > > You have a point. What is bordering bizarre is the fact that this   
   > > > happens at the same time when governments and police go on the witch   
   > > > hunt in the attempt to eliminate alcohol from the roads.   
   > >   
   > > >>"Dave Smith"  wrote in message   
   > > >>news:poGRq.110582$j02.82469@unlimited.newshosting.com...   
   > > >>We have a prime example of the idiocy in Ontario where drivers under age   
   > > >> 22 are allowing zero alcohol. It wasn't enough to have 0.08 BAC for DUI,   
   > > >> or a 24 hour suspension at 0.05, new drivers and all drivers under 22   
   > > >> are not allowed any alcohol in their system.   
   > > >>   
   > > >> This 0 BAC was the result of lobbying by the father his son and a couple   
   > > >> of his friends in an drunk driving crash. The kids had been at his club   
   > > >> in Muskoka and had been been drinking their faces off all day. They were   
   > > >> all drunk. We are not talking 0.01 to 0.05 BAC. DRUNK.   
   > >   
   > > Whatever it takes . . . .  by whoever decides enough is enough.   
   > >   
   > > BC decided that the ".08" allowance just wasn't keeping the drunks off the   
   > > roads and they   
   > > brought in some very tough legislation that involved CONFISCATION of   
   vehicles   
   > > on top of long   
   > > licence suspensions.  And guess what ? . . . .   
   >   
   >   
   > And you just swallow it. Because the government would never jigger the   
   > figures, right?   
      
   e.g. in order to justify extreme authoritarian legislation that's already been   
   struck down in part in a BC court and would likely be ruled unconstitutional if   
   it ever got to the SCC?   
      
   Our governments would never fiddle with statistics would they?   
      
   The numbers according to the 2009 BC Coroners Service Annual Report (there   
   doesn't appear to be one for 2010, for some reason):   
   http://www.pssg.gov.bc.ca/coroners/publications/docs/annualreport2009.pdf   
      
   Alcohol-Related Motor Vehicle Deaths, By Year   
      
   2002	108   
   2003	98   
   2004	106   
   2005	127   
   2006	86   
   2007	96   
   2008	83   
   2009	69   
   (some 2009 deaths were still being investigated)   
      
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