not that they do it now

Ontario recently enacted a distracted driver law that targets all electronic devices, now i support the cell phone and texting thing but what i find amusing about the new law is it covers in car cd or dvd players, so theoretically a police officer could see me switching cd's (say i'm grabbing one from one of the visor things) and ticket me, but i can unwrap my burger and fries and biggie size drink and munch away with no problem

Yes sir we had one engineer on a train textings that might or might not been the cause of an accident.

Still no school buses with tens of thousands of trips a day with textings being a known factor in any accident.

But I can see the great need for such a ban as who know what might happen in the future and we need government out there trying to think of every possible low odd event to protect us from.

Lord I bet we as yet have no rule on drivers brushing their teeth or shaving behind the wheel so let address that issue next.

Oh as a side note I used to be an railroad employee in my younger days and what did go on in engine cabs did go far beyond the evil of textings does now.

Let see how about an engineer who had his 15 year old son operate a passenger train from South Jersey to Newark.

Or the time the conductor and his trainmen was late and some of the passengers who had been traveling on that train for years gave all the correct signals to the engine crew and ran that train all the way down to the shore. It was not until the engine crew arrived at the end of the line at Bayhead JCT that they found out that they did not have a conductor or trainnmen on broad.

Yes you really need to worry about textings.

Ontario recently enacted a distracted driver law that targets ... but i can unwrap my burger and fries and biggie size drink and munch away with no problem

Ontario's Careless Driving Law, contained in Highway Traffic Act Section 130 and introduced in 1990, concludes that every person is guilty of the offence of driving carelessly who drives a vehicle or street car on a highway without due care and attention or without reasonable consideration for other persons using the highway. If convicted under the Careless Driving Law, motorists may be liable for a fine of $200 to $1,000, as well as a jail term for a maximum of six months. As well, the motorist's licence may be revoked for a period of up to two years. This is one of Ontario's toughest rules of the road.

I am not stating that textings or a million others way of not paying attention to your driving is a good thing however, I surely do question the need for my community to pass a rule concerning this one behavior when there is no indication by their own words that it is problem or is happening.