Actually, let’s debate WHY one of “our”” professors from UNBC doing a study about Quebec?? Who was sponsoring him??? Was it UNBC money?? If so, do we not have our own problems in the North that could be researched and the money put to better use???? Looking at this study, people probably say Quebec most certainly has a drinking problem and I’m glad it’s not us.

Even if he wasn’t being paid by BC tax dollars, this study would have the same effect as my last sentence above

New drivers are not as proficient as experienced ones, especially with a few ‘belts’ in them. Some people never get the hang of driving , just not a skill that they can get a grasp off.
What the prof is suggesting that we entertain the thought of raising the age of adulthood. I was legally and adult at 18 years of age, could vote, go to war, drink and smoke, get married , have kids , be employed in an adult job. Then down the road some other statistician , with who knows what agenda, will suggest the age go to 21 or 25 or some number that holds back the next generation.

A study.. We paid for a study.. When every insurance company in Canada has these statistics and uses them to determine drivers rates. Would take one person with an excel spreadsheet under a week to so the research. Another Waste of time and money.

P Val, I agree!! Another waste of time and money!

How much time and money was spent on this study, which ended up telling us what we already knew??

What burns me is that we can send our young people off to to war at 18 but deny them the pleasure of a drink.

“As soon as youth are given legal access to alcohol, there are immediate effects on the road,” says Dr. Callaghan. So raising the drinking age just postpones it. So maybe the drinking age should be lowered to 14 so they have 2 years experience drinking before they start driving. Are their any studies on this situation? ☻

oops spelling mistake

cause I was drinking and texting ☻

In the States there was a very marked decrease in teenage fatalities and injuries when the drinking age was raised to 21. So I guess the government has to decide, taxes or life.

Seamut and now the vehicle deaths have risen due to texting.. The government is all about big business.. Both here and the USA.

yeah sure… let’s give them the pleasure of drinking.. BTW… Going to war also has alcohol restrictions

Let’s see, raise the drinking age to 19 and you save a percentage of 18 year olds from a crash. But what about the stats for 19 year olds, do they increase by the same amount? Do you just postpone the inevitable? Do you just move the stats by a year? Lets do a study and find out

Unless things have changed since I was a teen there is always someone in the crowd with an older sibling willing to buy the booze for you. And Stats can be twisted to some degree also to come up with a conclusion that you want.

Did they also track the number of people with licenses at a certain age? Maybe there were more drivers in the 18 year old age bracket over the 17 and 16 year old bracket which accounts for the increase? What were the experience levels of the drivers involved in the crashes – 2 months, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years? Their own vehicle or parents car – less experience if you are only driving part time? Lots of factors that are not mentioned.

Did this study even look at the fact of whether they were impaired or not? Nowhere does it actually state that the 18 year old kids were drinking – just that they were in some type of collision.

wasnt it a professor that boldy stated that the new gas pumps at Costco will possibly have no impact on gas prices..now this..what’s next.

Some professor doing a study on rain.. Conclusion.. If it rains things possibly get wet..lol

So slinky what you are saying is lower the drinking age to 16!

Anyhow here are some facts with references

http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/mlda.htm

So there is no comparative analysis, so how can this even be considered a study of anything? Age and experience will reduce the accident rate.

A comparison of say 18 year olds in Ontario verse same age in Quebec would have more relevant merit.

I agree its an attempt to push back adulthood and the argument lacks merit. Pushing the issue underground and beyond the law only makes matters worse.

…and in other news: Alcohol will be sold in grocery and corner stores everywhere, as of April 1st 2015.

What ever they can do to curb drinking is a good thing. But targeting people based on age is a bad thing. We will send them to war but they have no freedoms…what the hell.

Here’s a novel idea, leave the drinking age 19 as it is now in BC, but have the Graduated license system be a full 5 year program, where a new driver can not apply for an unrestricted class 5 licence until 5 years after getting their learners. As you all know a driver with an N has ZERO tolerance for alcohol. This means that even ridiculously low reading .00001 is enough to trigger a license suspension.
Enforce Zero tolerance vigorously with all new (N) drivers and before long you will see a huge reduction in crashes involving young people and alcohol.

Jimmy Hughes.. Read all the rules for selling alcohol. Your statement is extremely misleading. Don’t let the facts get in your way.