Fourteen years ago, 21-year-old Patrick Mowbray from Roland passed away as a result of being hit by a drunk driver. Now, his father is advocating for a federal justice minister's idea to reduce the legal blood-alcohol limit from .08 to .05.

Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould proposed in May that the limit be lowered .03 points to make it easier to fight the dangers of driving under the influence, whether someone has consumed a whole bottle of wine or only one alcoholic beverage.

Doug Mowbray has been an anti-drunk driving advocate since his son died in 2003. He said, while lowering the limit is a good start, more should be done to eliminate drunk drivers entirely.

“[We should] put more money into policing, more money into alcohol detection ... that's the training our police forces have to be taking. I think it's important that we support the police [service] and we do everything we can to help them,” said Mowbray.

He emphasized that preventing tragedies such as these starts before the drunk driver even sits behind the wheel.

“The fellow that killed my son was killed at the scene, so two families have been affected by this tragedy ... why couldn't his family have taken him off the road? Because possibly, if he's a problem drinker, they could do stuff to help him. That has to be in place also for families,” he said.

Mowbray said he thinks the federal justice minister should follow the lead of some other countries and push to decrease the legal blood-alcohol limit to zero tolerance.

According to Statistics Canada, a total of 72,039 cases of impaired driving were reported by police in 2015, resulting in the lowest count since data first started being collected in 1986. Manitoba had one of the lowest rates that year, alongside Ontario and Quebec.