10 years (bodily harm) / life (death)
Hybrid offence. If proceeded by indictment with max sentence of 10+ years, this is serious criminality under IRPA s.36(1). Even summary proceedings create inadmissibility under s.36(2) as the offence is punishable by indictment.
Driving that put other people at real risk, with no alcohol required. When someone is injured the ceiling is 10 years, and when someone dies it is life, so a conviction sits squarely in the serious criminality range for entry. The Crown can run the lighter route in Canada, but immigration law measures the offence by its heaviest possible penalty.
(1) Everyone commits an offence who operates a conveyance in a manner that, having regard to all of the circumstances, is dangerous to the public. (2) Everyone commits an offence who operates a conveyance in a manner that, having regard to all of the circumstances, is dangerous to the public and, as a result, causes bodily harm to another person. (3) Everyone commits an offence who operates a conveyance in a manner that, having regard to all of the circumstances, is dangerous to the public and, as a result, causes the death of another person.