Criminal Code suspensions
You will receive a one-year licence suspension the first time you are convicted of a Criminal Code offence. Subsequent offences increase substantially to a lifetime ban from driving. Convictions will remain on your driver’s record for a minimum of 10 years.
Your licence will be suspended if you are convicted of any of the following Criminal Code offences:
- Driving or having care and control of a vehicle, including boats, when your BAC is more than 80 milligrams per 100 millilitres of blood (.08)
- Refusing to submit to a breath test for alcohol
- Failing or refusing to provide a breath sample for roadside testing
- Failing to remain at the scene of a collision
- Dangerous driving
- Causing death or bodily harm by criminal negligence
- Failing to stop for police