The Impaired Driving Coalition of Canada (IDCC), formed in 2022 with funding from Diageo North America, created a National Action Plan with with four key focus areas – Prevention, Education, Data & Technology. A series of tools was developed in 2022 and 2023 to complete much of the work on the Action Plan. These tools were developed to empower communities to reduce impaired driving and are available in English and French.
In 2024 and 2025, the IDCC completed a series of regional impaired driving community workshop series in BC, SK, ON, and QC, gathering insights on post-pandemic trends, enforcement capacity, and data challenges. The outcomes of these workshops have helped inform the development of a new series of tools and resources to help communities strengthen prevention and education efforts.
Soon-to-be released outputs include a toolkit to help communities conduct local surveys, a checklist to help local governments better assess the prevalence of the impaired driving problem using both quantitative and qualitative data sources, a fact sheet about important changes to the impaired driving problem emerging from the pandemic, and a fact sheet to help media understand the important role they play in raising awareness about impaired driving. Other outputs that are in development include strategies to improve cross-professional collaboration between police and commercial motor vehicle inspectors, police and hospital staff, and tools to help communities make better use of their own impaired driving data sources.
TIRF partnered with Diageo North America to establish the IDCC which is comprised of 23 organizations committed to preventing impaired driving: Desjardins, Saskatchewan Government Insurance, Toronto Police Service, Ottawa Police Service, Ontario Provincial Police, North Bay Police Service, Victoria Police Department, Manitoba Public Insurance, Canadian Automobile Association, Windsor Regional Hospital, Ford Canada, Private Motor Truck Council, Spirits Canada, Canada Safety Council, Canadian Telecommunications Association, Beer Canada, arrive alive DRIVE SOBER, MADD Canada, Alcohol Countermeasures Systems, Smart Start, Safer Roads Alliance, CARSP Young Professionals’ Committee, and the Ontario Injury Prevention Practitioners Network as well as TIRF’s Lead Youth Advisor Program. Learn about why organizations joined the Coalition: https://youtu.be/Zp-8vIQ5J0c
