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Thirty years ago, Mothers Against Drinking and Driving (MADD) Canada launched Project Red Ribbon to raise awareness about impaired driving and to remember the thousands of victims of impaired driving injured or killed.

Thirty years ago, Mothers Against Drinking and Driving (MADD) Canada launched Project Red Ribbon to raise awareness about impaired driving and to remember the thousands of victims of impaired driving injured or killed.

Here we are three decades later, asking Canadians to once again do something about the carnage on our roads. It’s a fairly simple enough thing to ask: don’t get behind the wheel impaired.

The message of driving sober is shared over and over again in countless different ways. However, so far this year, in our own immediate area, St. Paul RCMP members have undertaken 155 investigations into impaired driving. You’ve got to think that’s taking up a lot of the police force’s time – time that could be better spent elsewhere if not for the idiots out there on our roads.

So, we have to ask, what does it take to get people’s attention? The holiday season is closing in fast and as MADD Canada points out, with parties and celebrations plentiful, the risk for impaired driving is especially high.

Here’s a sobering fact – four people a day are killed in this country in crashes involving alcohol and or drugs. Here’s another interesting tidbit – again according to MADD Canada - drugs are now present more often that alcohol in drivers involved in fatal crashes – and pot isn’t even legal yet.

It boggles the mind that in this day and age, and even in spite of heavier penalties if caught impaired driving, we still have drunks and stoners taking to the highways and playing Russian roulette with the lives of others sharing the roads. Quite frankly, we should all be a little mad about that.


Clare Gauvreau

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