Canadian regulations appear to be much stiffer than what you have in place. A good starting point for you could be the Transport Canada web site - see:
http://www.tc.gc.ca/roadsafety/childsafety/menu.htm
You can probably find links to research/researchers through that site as well.
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Colin R. Leech - Transit Planner
Planificateur du transport en commun
OC Transpo - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
613-842-3636 ext./poste 2354
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> This is slightly off-topic but I am interested in contacting people
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> I am assisting with a project that is reviewing the Australian Road
> Rules concerning the use of child restraints. Decades ago
> regulations
> were introduced in Australian states to require all child under 12
> months of age to be restrained in an approved child restraint
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> There is useful research supporting the use of child restraints for
> as long as possible but limited discussion of the use of regulation
> to encourage this.
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> My colleague, Michael Griffiths, will be contacting known
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> from people involved with regulating child restraint use who might
> slip through our net. I am interested in regulations, policy
> documents and research reports that consider child age,
> weight and/or
> height and specify types of restraints to be used.
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