{"id":7336,"date":"2017-03-01T18:21:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T18:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/?p=7336"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:22:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T18:22:18","slug":"ottawa-wants-tougher-national-standard-for-distracted-drivers-using-cellphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/news\/ottawa-wants-tougher-national-standard-for-distracted-drivers-using-cellphones\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa wants tougher national standard for distracted drivers using cellphones"},"content":{"rendered":"TheStar.com (OTTAWA, ONTARIO)<\/p>\n<p>Transport Minister Marc Garneau is calling for the creation of a tough national standard to penalize distracted drivers using their cellphones on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Garneau said Wednesday that having consistent national rules with stiffer fines and demerit points could address the growing number of incidents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/2017\/03\/01\/ottawa-wants-tougher-national-standard-for-distracted-drivers-using-cellphones.html\">Continue reading this post\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TheStar.com (OTTAWA, ONTARIO) Transport Minister Marc Garneau is calling for the creation of a tough national standard to penalize distracted drivers using their cellphones on the road. Garneau said Wednesday that having consistent national rules with stiffer fines and demerit&#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-7336","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\/7336","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=7336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7337,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7336\/revisions\/7337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}