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Drivers for Calgary Transit and Southland Transportation won’t face increased testing for impairment when cannabis becomes legal next month.

While the federal government is set to legalize the drug for recreational use on Oct. 17, it will be business as usual for the city’s largest public transportation fleets, which both insist on drivers showing up to work clean and sober.

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Matt Zablonski, the city’s project lead for the legalization of cannabis, said the city conducted an extensive review of its workplace policies over the past few months and determined there was no need to make any major alterations.

“At the City of Calgary we’ve already got an extensive substance-use policy — basically cannabis is just moving from the illicit side to the legal,” he said.

“Employees must report for duty fit for work.”

Calgary Transit employees must undergo pre-employment drug testing before being hired, although the city doesn’t have a policy calling for random drug and alcohol testing.