The provincial government is taking the right approach to concerns about the new drinking and driving penalties, not by changing the penalties, but looking at more public education and finding a way to make the penalties easier to appeal.
The goal of reducing drinking and driving is laudable. The new penalties, which came into effect in October, are definitely helping B.C.
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