15 Years of B.C.’s IRP Scheme: How We Got Here
British Columbia’s Immediate Roadside Prohibition (IRP) regime arrived in the fall of 2010 with a simple pitch: get alcohol-affected drivers off the road quickly, using swift administrative penalties rather than slow criminal prosecutions.
From day one, it was sold as a life-saving public-safety tool. And it has certainly become the dominant impaired-driving response in this province. But the story of IRPs is also a story of constitutional litigation, policy pivots, and legislative patchwork that has reshaped how we handle alleged impaired driving in B.C.
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