14 years (indictable) / 2 years less a day (summary)
This is a punishment provision rather than a separate offence. It sets the sentence for the bodily-harm versions of dangerous operation (s. 320.13(2)), impaired operation (s. 320.14(2)), refusal to comply (s. 320.15(2)), and failure to stop after an accident (s. 320.16(2)). The 14-year indictable maximum puts every one of those charges into serious criminality under IRPA s.36(1), and s.36(3)(a) deems them indictable even where the Crown proceeded summarily. No deemed rehabilitation is available at that level, and the mandatory minimum fine or jail term fixes the date the record starts ageing from.
Not an offence on its own, this is the sentence a court reaches for when impaired or dangerous driving injured somebody. The ceiling is 14 years, which pushes all four of those driving charges past the serious criminality line. It is the provision that turns a crash with an injury into a lasting problem at the border.
Every person who commits an offence under subsection 320.13(2), 320.14(2), 320.15(2) or 320.16(2) is guilty of (a) an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 14 years and to a minimum punishment of, (i) for a first offence, a fine of $1,000, (ii) for a second offence, imprisonment for a term of 30 days, and (iii) for each subsequent offence, imprisonment for a term of 120 days; or (b) an offence punishable on summary conviction and liable to a fine of not more than $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years less a day, or to both, and to the minimum punishments set out in subparagraphs (a)(i) to (iii).