Potential Legal Issues with Proposed Impaired Driving Laws

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    Potential Legal Issues with Proposed Impaired Driving Laws

    The federal government intends to change Canada’s impaired driving laws, and have introduced amendments to the Criminal Code in order to do so.  Some of those amendments are extremely problematic.

    Criminal defence lawyer Sarah Leamon shares her concerns with proposed changes to impaired driving laws.

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    On this segment of CBC’s Power & Politics, I discuss some potential legal issues that could arise as a result of the Liberal government’s proposed changes to our criminal impaired driving laws.

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