Life imprisonment (murder) / Life imprisonment (manslaughter)
Culpable homicide (murder, manslaughter, infanticide) is among the most serious offences in Canadian law. Serious criminality under IRPA s.36(1). Creates permanent inadmissibility with virtually no pathway to overcome except royal prerogative of mercy.
A person commits homicide when, directly or indirectly, by any means, he causes the death of a human being. Homicide is culpable or not culpable. Homicide that is not culpable is not an offence. Culpable homicide is murder or manslaughter or infanticide. A person commits culpable homicide when he causes the death of a human being, (a) by means of an unlawful act; (b) by criminal negligence; (c) by causing that human being, by threats or fear of violence or by deception, to do anything that causes his death; or (d) by wilfully frightening that human being, in the case of a child or sick person.