In June of last year, Goldfarb Consultants released statistics about Canadians’ attitudes on impaired driving and their drinking and driving behaviour. Highlights of the Goldfarb Report 2000 include:

• 93 % of Canadians are concerned about the number of people who drink and drive. Two in three Canadians are ‘very concerned.’
  
  
• 40 % of Canadians admit to driving their vehicle when they thought they were over the legal limit. More than one in two males (55 %) admitted to driving when they thought they were over the legal limit.
  
  
• 78 % of Canadians personally have known someone who has driven a vehicle when they thought they were over the legal limit.
  
  
• 55 % of Canadians believe Canada’s drinking and driving laws are ‘not tough enough.’ 41% of Canadians believe Canada’s laws are ‘about right.’
  
  
• 63 % of Canadians support a jail sentence of at least 14 days for individuals convicted of drinking and driving for the first time.
  
  
• 66 % support mandatory life-time suspension from driving for individuals convicted of drinking and driving for a second time.
  
  
• 51 % of Canadians support the lowering of the legal limit of BAC and another 21 % neither supports or opposes the measure. Only 16% strongly oppose the lowering of the legal limit of BAC.
  
  
• 82 % of Canadians support the criminal prosecution of drivers who are impaired by drugs such as marijuana or hashish.