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Originally Posted by Weitz
Hard to measure against other countries as really the USA is the only country that is fairly similar to Canada in most aspects.
What other countries have such laws? I never had heard of it till now.
I mean you could look around the world and be like well there’s no way Canada could screw up developing their natural resources. Just look at the rest of the world.. yet here we are.
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Australia, New Zealand, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, and about 30 other countries.
This really doesn’t have anything to do with developing natural resources, that’s a weird thing to bring up. What this does have to do with is the fact that there are many liberal democracies where this law has existed, some for decades, and the studies have shown that this law is directly related to a sharp decline in deaths related to impaired driving. And I don’t know which of those countries you’d want to look at, many of which have the best quality of life on the planet, and think “oh, that’s an Orwellian state! How dangerous!”
You can even see it in this thread, people are already saying “you know what, I’m not even going to risk it” and that part of what this law does: it creates a culture shift where people don’t want to drink and drive, not just because it’s stupid, but because the risk is that much higher.