The Ontario government may make a bill as early as tomorrow, following provinces such as Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Quebec in banning electronic devices (cell phones) while driving. Transport Canada's 2008 report on driver cellphone use shows that 37% of drivers using a cellphone while driving have been seen to have unsafe driving behaviours such as tailgating and speeding. The Ontario Medical Association released a report stating that cellphone use is as bad to a driver as being at the legal limit of alcohol consumption. Premier Dalton McGuinty announced in May that he was considering legislation that would ban all hand-held devices, not just cellphones, forcing drivers to use headsets or speaker systems instead. Newfoundland had been the first province to ban cell phones while driving in 2003. The cost for disregarding this law could be up to $400 and four points off your license. About 50 countries already have this law in place.
I think that this law should be instated. However it would be rather hard to enforce seeing that a police would physically have to see a person on the phone. Also I think that in emergency situations a cell phone is needed and that this law would have to be exclusive of certain situation. Even if it was exclusive of these situations it would be hard to know why someone is on the phone, and if being an emergency purpose it would be wrong to stop that person.
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