UNINTENDED IMMIGRATION CONSEQUENCES OF INCREASING THE MAXIMUM SENTENCE FOR IMPAIRED DRIVING TO 10 YEARS.

Canadian lawyers’ associations say the Liberal government’s new impaired driving offences could lead to “significant strain” on the immigration system and at the border from increases in deportations, inadmissibility, appeals and administrative burden. The new ten-year maximum penalty provisions in Bill C-46 bring impaired driving offences under ‘serious criminality’ in Canadian law. That means just […]

Source: Liberals’ impaired driving regime could lead to deportations, border ‘strain’ – iPolitics