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NEW DRIVING LAWS – If you drive home, park, go inside and have a couple of drinks in the next two hours that puts you over the legal driving limit, you will be committing a criminal offence of impaired driving. Make sense?

Posted bywpengine 11 January 2019

Canada’s new impaired-driving law allows police to give breath tests to any drivers they want, even if they have no reason to suspect drunkenness.

Source: How the rules for breath tests in Canada have changed

Posted bywpengine11 January 2019Posted inUncategorized

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