2 years less a day / $5,000 fine
Summary conviction offence. Generally does NOT create inadmissibility under IRPA s.36 for foreign nationals, as s.36(2)(b) requires equivalence to an indictable offence. However, two or more summary convictions may create inadmissibility under IRPA s.36(2)(b).
Public rowdiness, fighting, shouting, or being drunk in a public place. This one can only be prosecuted the lighter way, and a single summary conviction generally does not make a foreign national inadmissible. Two or more of them can, which is where a string of small incidents starts to matter.
(1) Every one who (a) not being in a dwelling-house, causes a disturbance in or near a public place, (i) by fighting, screaming, shouting, swearing, singing or using insulting or obscene language, (ii) by being drunk, or (iii) by impeding or molesting other persons, (b) openly exposes or exhibits an indecent exhibition in a public place, (c) loiters in a public place and in any way obstructs persons who are in that place, or (d) disturbs the peace and quiet of the occupants of a dwelling-house by discharging firearms or by other disorderly conduct in a public place or who, not being an occupant of a dwelling-house comprised in a particular building or structure, disturbs the peace and quiet of the occupants of a dwelling-house comprised in the building or structure by discharging firearms or by other disorderly conduct in any part of a building or structure to which, at the time of such conduct, the occupants of two or more dwelling-houses comprised in the building or structure have access as of right or by invitation, express or implied, is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction. (2) In the absence of other evidence, or by way of corroboration of other evidence, a summary conviction court may infer from the evidence of a peace officer relating to the conduct of a person or persons, whether ascertained or not, that a disturbance described in paragraph (1)(a) or (d) or an obstruction described in paragraph (1)(c) was caused or occurred.