Life imprisonment
Straight indictable offence carrying life imprisonment. Serious criminality under IRPA s.36(1). Causing death by criminal negligence creates permanent and severe immigration consequences. Criminal rehabilitation is extremely difficult to obtain.
Acting with reckless disregard for other people's lives and causing a death as a result. It carries life imprisonment with no lighter route, placing it at the top of serious criminality. There is no waiting period that clears a record of this kind.
Every person who by criminal negligence causes death to another person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable (a) where a firearm is used in the commission of the offence, to imprisonment for life and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of four years; and (b) in any other case, to imprisonment for life.