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"Traceability" is an important concept in metrology - measurement science. Defence lawyers need to study metrology, find experts, and retain experts (metrologists) to help all of us in the Court system to understand, among other things, the measurement science concept of "traceability". In the forensic science, of evidentiary breath testing, the measurement results obtained using an approved instrument, are NEVER traceable to the 100 solution used by the police officer for ca

Purpose: To educate the Court as to the "why" of the unreliability of an approved instrument to measure across the measuring interval if it has not been recently calibrated, inspected, maintained, re-calibrated. It seems strange to think that a modern "approved instrument" has to "learn" - that it has a kind of artificial intelligence. In reality it's true, an approved instrument has to learn the meanings of 67 mg/100mls, 94 mg/100mls, 117 mg/100mls, and 184 mg/100mls. The ar

Purposes: To connect evidentiary breath testing in Canada, the Criminal Code, and the Weights and Measures Act section 4(1) to the Metre Convention and the organizations created by the Metre Convention specifically the CGPM and the BIPM. To establish the primacy of the CGPM/BIPM and its SI units and vocabulary in any consideration of measurement science in Canada and internationally. To establish that Canada is a member state of the Metre Convention. To lay the groundwork for

Purpose: To connect the concept of measurement standard, reference standard, étalon to Canadian law, Canadian constitutional law, and international measurement science. To suggest to the Court that if measurement is a comparison, then it must always be a comparison to the international measurement standard, reference standard, étalon. Cross-examination excerpt Q. Now we have the truck sitting on the weigh scale, and the measurement is recorded in paper clips. Somebody at th

Purpose: To connect the Criminal Code and its wording about concentration of alcohol in units of blood with the International system of SI units. To establish the importance of SI units and their definitions according to the CGPM when construing and applying the Criminal Code of Canada, with respect to offences defined in terms of a concentration of alcohol in units of blood. Q. I just want to show you section 253(1)(b) of the Criminal Code and I just want to ask you a quest