The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal made the following comment in a case where the original 24 month sentence was set aside and a 30 month sentence imposed :
It is common ground that in the last 30 years, drinking and driving laws have been amended to aid police in the detection of impaired drivers and to generally increase the sentences which can be imposed on impaired drivers. Legislative examples of this are the increased maximum sentence for impaired driving causing death from 14 years imprisonment to life in 2001, amendments to the Criminal Code in December 2007 which precludes conditional sentences for impaired drivers causing death, and amendments in 2008 which raised the minimum sentence plateau for drinking and driving offences. However, despite strong penalties imposed by Parliament, drinking and driving offences continue to be a societal problem. R. v. Ross, 2013 SKCA 77