It's about time!

When parents bring a baby home from the hospital, they have a government approved baby car seat.  It's rear facing and the specifications are very strict.  When the child gets a little older, it's a new car seat with very strict specifications.  Car seats don't last long as the specifications keep changing.  Car seat standards are approved by the government and every parent makes sure their car seat meets government standards and their child is secured properly whenever they travel in a vehicle.  Car seats in cars are mandatory until the child is a certain weight or 9 years old in Canada.

When that child reaches the age of five, they are picked up by a school bus with bench seats and not even a seat belt.  If there is an accident, the kids are projected without any protection!   Serious and injuries have happened for years! 

Today in our provincial parliament, a private member has introduced a bill to make three point seat belts mandatory on all new school buses in 2021.

I cannot understand how our government has neglected this for so long!  Let's hope this private members bill is passed by parliament and someone in Ottawa introduces a bill to make it mandatory Canada wide.

I say, it's bloody well time!