{"id":6673,"date":"2016-08-25T16:28:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T16:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/?p=6673"},"modified":"2016-09-23T16:29:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T16:29:41","slug":"should-distracted-driving-be-a-criminal-offence-quebec-urges-ottawa-to-consider-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/news\/should-distracted-driving-be-a-criminal-offence-quebec-urges-ottawa-to-consider-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Should distracted driving be a criminal offence? Quebec urges Ottawa to consider it"},"content":{"rendered":"Global News (MONTREAL, QUEBEC)<\/p>\n<p>Quebec\u2019s new transport minister wants his federal counterpart Marc Garneau to examine the possibility of making it a criminal offence to use a cellphone while driving.<\/p>\n<p>Laurent Lessard raised the issue during a press briefing on Wednesday morning, according to La Presse Canadienne.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet (Garneau) look at what elements of criminalization would be involved,\u201d Lessard said. \u201cIt is his responsibility, we will discuss it. This will be the agenda \u2026 I will ask him to analyze it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/2903526\/should-distracted-driving-be-a-criminal-offence-quebec-urges-ottawa-to-consider-it\/\">Continue reading this post\u2026<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global News (MONTREAL, QUEBEC) Quebec\u2019s new transport minister wants his federal counterpart Marc Garneau to examine the possibility of making it a criminal offence to use a cellphone while driving. Laurent Lessard raised the issue during a press briefing on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-road-safety-news-digest","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6674,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions\/6674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}