TORONTO ? Ontario won?t immediately ground of admission blood, urine or saliva samples taken from motorists suspected of driving while high, which critics warn strips police of prominent new powers that would help them stop impaired drivers.

The government-run middle point responsible for the testing isn?t accepting any samples under new federal rules ? which came into effect Wednesday ? because the region is worried it will overburden the regularity.

?As the projected workload will exceed current capabilities, the Centre of Forensic Sciences will immediately discontinue acceptance of all submissions related to the Drug Evaluation and Classification program until the necessary capabilities are developed,? said a memo sent to Ontario Provincial Police by a top bureaucrat at the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services.

The June 30 memo was circulated through the Ontario Progressive Conservatives, who said they received it from the federal Conservatives.

The new rules ? passed in February as part of the Conservatives? crime omnibus legislation Bill C-2 ? prescribe tougher penalties as antidote to all impaired drivers and make it a offender offence to garbage a roadside sobriety test.

Police can also compel suspected drug-impaired drivers to give a blood, urine or spittle sample for analysis, which drivers could previously refuse.

The Ontario government sends the improper message to impaired drivers who are acquisition away with a serious crime, said Margaret Miller, national director of Mothers Against Drunk Driving Canada.

?Why was it left so late? Why is this business just coming out now?? she said in an interview from Shubenacadie, N.S.

?It?s very unsuccessful because it sends a signal out there that impaired driving isn?t a priority instead of them. If there was all of a sudden a rush on sexual assault cases, would they impediment doing the testing??

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