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Ontario’s Premier Dad, under fire for his proposals to slap restrictions on all young…

by selley on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 1:57pm - 5 Comments

helen Ontario’s Premier Dad, under fire for his proposals to slap restrictions on all young drivers because one of their kind got drunk and drove off a cliff, suggests he may relent and allow teenage drivers to continue to chauffeur more than one other teenager at a time. But that’s madness, surely—the transport minister insisted just this week that the proposed legislation was based on statistics! Bosh to statistics, anyway. Everyone knows that teenage drivers reach an unacceptable distraction threshold when more than one other teenager is in the car with them, unless those teenagers are related to the driver, in which case their presence has no effect. Courage, Premier Dad! These quarrelsome child-adults know not what they do!

Tags: Dalton McGuinty, ontario, Premier Dad, young drivers

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Andrew (not Potter or Coyne)

I think this could have been predicted when the story first broke.
Phil

Anyone willing to bet on the next paternalistic imposition?

I’m guessing a limit on the number of bottles customers can purchase at the LCBO per week. Or maybe mandatory flu shots. Or maybe mandatory flossing. Mandatory toques…?

Common, McGuinty, tell us what your government will do next to save us from ourselves!
http://www.macleans.ca Chris Selley

“I’m guessing a limit on the number of bottles customers can purchase at the LCBO per week.”

Not a bad guess, and it wouldn’t even require writing new regulations. They could simply dust off the original LCBO model, which involved just about exactly that. But ultimately I don’t think Queen’s Park can afford to have us drink less, either financially or temperamentally.
http://carnewsandviews.com jwl

“Bosh to statistics, anyway”

Well said, Chris. There’s lies, damn lies and statistics.

And reminiscing about LCBO. Weren’t all the bottles kept behind closed doors and you had to fill out a form with name/address, take it to cashier, and they would get bottles for you. At least that’s what I seem to remember but I was wee lad when my dad took me to liquor stores.

It would be nice if McGuinty stopped adding new laws and suggested to the police that they start to enforce some of the myriad of laws we already have.
http://www.jamesmaynard.ca james

HAHAHA thats a hilarious comment on the LCBO, Chris, and so true!!! I’m gonna have to go crack a cold one so I don’t feel as upset about all this madness