{"id":1328,"date":"2013-08-06T07:08:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T14:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2014-02-01T07:09:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T15:09:17","slug":"justice-minister-mackay-wants-to-revamp-impaired-driving-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2013\/08\/06\/justice-minister-mackay-wants-to-revamp-impaired-driving-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Minister MacKay wants to revamp impaired driving legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1329\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1329\" style=\"width: 380px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2146287vg7uqxpqgqqqfh7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2146287vg7uqxpqgqqqfh7.jpg\" alt=\"Minister of Justice Peter McKay. Photo from Wikipedia.\" width=\"380\" height=\"599\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2146287vg7uqxpqgqqqfh7.jpg 380w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2146287vg7uqxpqgqqqfh7-190x300.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minister of Justice Peter McKay. Photo from Wikipedia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>EDMONTON \u2014 \u201cI can tell you I did numerous trials on impaired driving cases, first as a defense lawyer and then prosecuting cases,&#8221; said MacKay in an interview with the Canadian Press.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, impaired driving causing death does not carry mandatory jail time as per Canadian law. In a report by Lorne Gunter of QMI Agency, nearly 60,000 Canadians go to court answering to impaired driving charges every year. Only 75% or 45,000 of those are convicted. Annually, about 1,000 lives are taken by drunk driving incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Current Minister of Justice Peter MacKay served as a lawyer in Nova Scotia before his appointment as minister. He did not go into the specifics of the  pointed out that the Conservative government is thinking of reinventing the impaired driving laws in Canada\u2019s Criminal Code.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI recall vividly a judge making a statement in a trial that I was prosecuting to the accused that driving down the road while under the effect of drugs or alcohol is no different than pointing a gun at another human being,\u201d MacKay said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON \u2014 \u201cI can tell you I did numerous trials on impaired driving cases, first as a defense lawyer and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-ca","mauthors-ching-dee","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}