A proposal to change to drunk driving laws in a Canadian province has reignited a fierce debate over the best way to prevent alcohol-related deaths on the country’s roads.
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Kyla Lee, a Vancouver-based lawyer specializing in drunk driving cases, disagrees that decriminalization in British Columbia has brought about such radical change.
“[The province’s] rules are having literally no impact on the death rate,” she said, suggesting instead that other factors – including intense media coverage of the policy, as well as greater public awareness – played an outsized role in reducing alcohol-related deaths.
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