AO - Wednesday, December 12, 1984 - North Shore News

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News Viewpoint

Whose rights?

ast year’s B.C. Supreme Court ruling
removing from police the power to im- | |
pose 24-hour suspensions on suspected oe
impaired drivers may be legally sound (though
it has yet to be contested by appeal). Whether
it is in the best public interest remains open to tL
question. ==

The Court decided such arbitrary driving

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bans were a denial of liberties under the oe

Charter of Rights. There is a practical con-
sideration, however, which the decision

ignores. P A Al
Police know that more than a few drivers — : Yrs
they stop are impaired to the point of being
unsafe, although probably still below the .08 — Baza GDC lis
breathalyzer reading. Formerly, such drivers ro OTA “hla Cll
could be removed from the road immediately , Cb tie: oo ong
with the 24-hour suspension. CAEL
Now — unless they can be persuaded to ' ee Wh
leave their cars voluntarily — the only course : :

is a formal charge based on visual evidence,
which can be pursued in court regardless of
whether they pass the breathalzyer test. The
problem for the police is the time consumed,
which is estimated at around 3.5 hours for
each charge and breathalyzer case, let alone
the time demands on our clogged courts.
Inevitably, this means police have to use
their judgement in certain borderline cases —
whereas, under the 24-hour’ suspension
system, they could virtually guarantee to
remove from the road right away every poten-

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minimal cost in time for all concerned.
Certainly, a modest 24-hour penalty

without due process may be a technical infr-

ingement of individual rights. But it also pro- HATS WRONG with the B.C. education educavon portion of the pro
tected the rights of everyone else to road safe- system? The main problem it faces at the 1 I9RS) the lowett of al
ty. Whose rights should prevail? | moment is the absence of any broad con- the 10 provinces and com
census On What's wrong with tt. oOcu pares to a national average of
That's the problem to remains to be seen 21.1 per cent
which bducation Minoster “Bact tinding’ as the key ae: Other school trustees and
a Jack Heinrich as seehany word The committee is not budget conscious lay
ex wit class answers with his recently an empowered to make any tor observers argue that redus
nouneed educahion feview on mal recommendations to the fron of the overall provinctal
titled Cbet’s talk about poverniment Lis sole yobs to deficit, still around $670
new board game on sale in some of the schools” Judging obs othe preoside information ona Mmiffon in the current fiscal
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