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Strict youth drinking and driving law imposed in Ontario

By Chris Jamele

Buffalo, NY – A zero alcohol law will take effect on Sunday in Ontario.

The legal drinking age in the province is nineteen, but the government is demanding that young drivers, those under the age of twenty-two, have no alcohol in their systems. This applies to American visitors to the province as well.

Conviction will result in a fine and a thirty day license suspension.