Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 7, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tin 2001 local a nip gets Tough on repeat drunk Drivers by Mia Rabson Manitoba attorney general has a message for you if you drive drunk Hes going to take your licence and your car and youre not going to get them Gord Mackintosh will introduce legis lation today which will bring lifetime licence suspensions to Drivers convicted More than three times of drunk if you drive drunk three times in a five year Mackintosh will take your if you kill someone when youre driving your car will be seized even if its your first the legislation will also bring ignition interlocks to the mini Reathal Yser devices which prevent a car from running if the Driver blows Over the provinces like Alberta and Quebec have surpassed once the National Leader in ant drunk driving leg and Mackintosh said enough is Manitoba once prided itself As hav ing the toughest drinking and driving Laws in the but since then this province has fallen he we have got to get these drunks off the last Manitoba was Given a c rating by mothers against drunk driving for its drunk driving mostly due to the Lack of graduated licensing for Novice Drivers and the Lack of ignition inter Dale president of the Winnipeg chapter of said with the graduated licensing legislation introduced last and these new drunk driving Manitoba could see its rating go up to around a Ontario rated High est last june with a Nova British Colum Bia and the Yukon already have lifetime driving suspensions in no other Canadian jurisdictions have vehicle forfeiture although they do exist in More than a dozen including on which Manitoba Laws will this is a terribly horrid threat to innocent manitohans1 nip takes hard line on Deadbeat parents new legislation targets self employed lottery parents who leave province by Mia Rabson Elizabeth Johnson says she has been nearly Defeated by a three year child support Battle with her not her real has had to sell her House because of a recently diagnosed chronic has been forced to go on disability at one Point her husband owed her in support payments for their 11and 14 year old she gave up on spousal payments a Long time and she is fast losing Hope that she will Ever see another Penny from but Johnson said new legislation introduced yesterday could have prevented her from getting into the financial mess she sits in attorney general Gord Mackintosh is asking the legislature to pass two Bills designed to make it More difficult for parents to skip out on child support pay the first allows the government to col Lect assets from incorporated Compa As Well As to get Access to lottery winnings of More than and it triples the fines for not paying child sup port to from closing the loophole to prevent self employed parents from sheltering assets within their corporations is expected to help As Many As previously the government seize those but under the new Legisla Tion that will be self employed parents with court ordered support pay ments make up 15 per cent of the accounts in the other aspect to the Bill that Mackintosh said could have a surprisingly Large effect is the seizing of lottery winnings Over he said in which has done this since More than has been seized from 380 people to pay their child the second Bill will remove much of the red tape for single parents seeking child support from former spouses who now live in other provinces or Manitoba children Are owed Mil lion in support payments dating Back to More than court orders Are issued each according to the of these 10 per cent Are chronically in arrears and at any one time As Many As 80 per cent of payments Are about 10 per cent of the orders Are for parents who live out of but those account for 37 per cent of the faulty or million in missing the province reciprocal agreement Laws were touted by Mackintosh at a Justice ministers conference held last fall in and Manitoba is the first to introduce the leg currently if two parents live in Sepa rate provinces they must go through two court hearings to determine support pay Manitoba proposed legislation will reduce that to one and the provinces will agree to live by the other provincial courts when Johnsons a husband left her in 1998 to move closer to his Girlfriend he left the she was Seldom Able to collect Money from him because he seemed to know How to get around the she he told me that if i kept pursuing him for support he would skip town she the Good news for Johnson is that her a husband now lives in the United and As soon As this legislation is Manitoba will have reciprocal child support agreements with All 50 As Well As several other countries including South aus England and because no other provinces have taken this it will take longer for the new Law to have any effect within now we have to convince other ministers of Justice to break Down the bar Mackintosh 2 seductive Only at natural Colour cultured tahitian Pearl 18kt Birks since 1879 Dirks Polo Park Centre 7867468 1 boo 662 2622 be loosely Mackintosh and Wilson both said the new legislation is most pertinent for the repeat drunk who make up just one per cent of the All Drivers on the Road at night on a week end but Are involved in 50 per cent of the fatal and dangerous we have refocused our attention on repeat drunk Mackintosh this is a terribly horrid threat to innocent the province already impounds vehicles of convicted drunk Drivers for 60 Days if they blow Over twice the Legal limit of per cent blood the car is impounded even longer for repeat nip statistics show vehicle forfeiture has worked for other since 1995 Mani Toba has seized the cars of those caught illegally Hunting at and it has reduced the number of in prior to vehicle 144 people were convicted of Hunting at since the highest num Ber of convictions in one year has been Wilson said while he is thrilled to see a crackdown on drunk there Are some flaws with lifetime driving sus its like removing them from the sys tem and they have nothing to lose any Wilson he said he thinks the legislation should be accompanied by some sort of Appeal where someone could get his licence Back after counselling and demonstrating he can stay highways minister Steve who has a personal interest in the Issue after a Friend of his sons was killed by a drunk Driver in March said people have to get the message that drunk driving will not be Ashton said he has been told there could be As Many As people Dri ving in the province who either have suspended licences or no licences at which Means enforcement must be if people know the loopholes or know the likelihood of getting caught is still do Ashton we have to Start with the legislation and then seriously look at Madd statistics show that drunk Dri ving is the leading criminal cause of death in in people in Canada were killed by drunk in the most recent year for which statistics Are peo ple were convicted of impaired impaired driving causing serious bodily harm or refusing a breathy ser of 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