The Impaired Driving Coalition of Canada (IDCC), formed in 2022 with funding from Diageo North America, created a National Action Plan 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 workshops in BC, SK, ON, and QC, gathering insights on post-pandemic trends, enforcement capacity, and data challenges. Participants represented a cross-section of practitioners including police and other first responders, health and public health, engineers, local government, public safety, Indigenous communities, Tribal Councils, educators and advocates. The outcomes of these workshops helped inform the development of a new series of tools and resources to help communities strengthen prevention and education efforts.

These new resources, available below to download, are designed to support municipalities, police services, and community groups in responding to today’s rapidly changing impaired driving landscape. Together, these resources offer a comprehensive approach to support communities in improving data collection, strengthening public awareness, and building more effective impaired driving strategies. Other outputs 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

Access the recording of TIRF’s Dec. 2025 webinar, Canada’s Impaired Driving Landscape | New Data, Community Insights & Emerging Solutions

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