Life imprisonment (minimum 4 years if firearm)
Carries life imprisonment. Serious criminality under IRPA s.36(1). The mandatory minimum of 4 years when a firearm is used ensures the sentenced person also meets the 6-month actual sentence threshold that bars IAD appeals under IRPA s.64.
The sentencing rule for manslaughter, with life as the ceiling and a mandatory 4 years where a firearm was used. That minimum matters twice over, because a sentence of 6 months or more also removes the right to appeal a removal order. Every version is serious criminality.
Every person who commits manslaughter 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.