Charter Statement on Drunk Driving Laws: A perspective from someone who routinely litigates the Charter
It’s troubling when the Government has to issue a public statement defending a law before the bill is event tabled for debate. When the proposed legislation is so flagrantly and blatantly unconstitutional, the Government is clearly scrambling to justify its existence before it is even passed. And so that brings us to the big drunk driving law news of the week: Jodi Wilson’s Charter Statement on Bill C-46. My summary opinion is this: it’s a stinking pile of nonsense.
Or, as one lawyer interviewed put it, “if a first year student wrote this, they would fail.”
