In the article A CCMTA View on the Legal Blood Alcohol (BAC) Limit, which appeared in the Winter 2003 issue of CCMTA News, that organization reaffirms its longstanding opposition to reducing the criminal limit for drinking and driving from 0.08 to 0.05.

In CCMTA's view, lowering the legal BAC would only criminalize a new cohort of the driving population who are at lower risk of collision involvement, further burdening an overtaxed criminal justice system without increasing the deterrent effect of the law. According to CCMTA, this would hamper the ability of the police to detect drivers with a BAC greater than 0.08 who are a greater crash risk due to the over-extending of enforcement resources.

CCMTA's position that the criminal BAC limit should remain at 0.08 is shared by highly credible organizations, including the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, the RCMP, the Canadian Bar Association, the Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF), the Canadian Automobile Association, The John Howard Society of Canada, the Elizabeth Fry Societies of Canada, the Canada Safety Council, the Government of the United Kingdom, the large majority of Canadian drivers, Canada's mainstream media and others.