Saturday, May 06, 2006

Hosts are not responsible..

Back in January I addressed this hot topic issue.

Am I surprised that yesterday the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that 'hosts' are not responsible for their guests once they leave the residence (except for extreme cases)? Not really! I'm glad to see this ruling - any other ruling would have put too much of an onus on family/friends/acquaintances of the drunks out there. Imagine if I had a party and someone had a few drinks - left my place, went elsewhere for a few drinks, then got in an accident. Where would the level of blame end? With this ruling the responsibility correctly lies with the drunk driver.

Now, if only we could get tougher sentencings for the drunks! In this particular case the gentleman in question had been charged twice before, for drinking & driving. Why the hell was he still out on the street? I'd like to see these people locked away for good.