They’re charging them with both. So this presents difficulties if someone’s unsophisticated and they don’t know what to do with this. So if you decide to plead guilty to this charge, say if you don’t have a lawyer when you go to court, what you need to do before you plead guilty is tell the judge to delete the ‘or by drug’ before you plead guilty. So you’re pleading guilty to ‘impaired by alcohol’.
If you don’t do that, the Ministry of Transportation will find out that you’re impaired by drug, even though you weren’t, and you won’t qualify for ignition interlock. There are people caught on this right now in the province. Lawyers need to understand this and more importantly the public needs to understand this if they plead guilty to an impaired by alcohol charge so they don’t get caught and they can qualify for Stream A ignition interlock.
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