Canada's Impaired Driving Law

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1 .c. At $600, Canada imposes one of the highest minimum fines in the world for blood alcohol offences.

2. b. In most provinces and territories it is impermissible to operate a motor vehicle at BACs over 0.05, but this only becomes a criminal matter when levels exceed 0.08.

3. c. Canada considers impaired driving as serious an offence as murder. In June 2000, the maximum penalty was raised from 14 years to life in prison.

4. c. Canada's one-year prohibition is one of the longest mandatory driving disqualifications in the world.

5. b. According to Statistics Canada impaired driving was still the most common traffic offence (64 percent), with 76,000 incidents in 2005.