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In the province of Ontario, drivers who are convicted of certain driving related offences result in demerit points recorded onto their driving records. It is commonly misconceived that drivers actually "lose" points due to convictions for certain traffic offences.
In 2013, "speed too fast / exceed speed limit" contributed to 18.4% of all collisions, [25] while "speeding" accounted for 55.2% of all driving convictions. [26] An Ontario-based group is lobbying to increase speed limits from 100 km/h to 120 to 130 km/h (75 to 81 mph). [27]
In 2006, Ontario passed legislation that would allow a court to suspend the licence of high school dropout until they turn 18. The act did not receive royal assent until December 2009, but is now in effect. [26] [27] Traffic violation convictions usually come with demerit points against a person's licence. While the demerit points have no ...
By 2008, drinking and driving cases made up 12 per cent of all criminal charges, making it the largest single offence group. In 2008, it was estimated that 53,000 drinking and driving cases are heard every year in Canada. The conviction rate was 73 per cent, which exceeded the rate for all criminal convictions by 13 per cent.
Matke's first drunken driving conviction was on April 25, 1990, and his ninth conviction was on March 24, 2017. Contact Karen Madden at kmadden@gannett.com.
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The Driver License Compact, a framework setting out the basis of a series of laws within adopting states in the United States (as well as similar reciprocal agreements in adopting provinces of Canada), gives states a simple standard for reporting, tracking, and punishing traffic violations occurring outside of their state, without requiring individual treaties between every pair of states.
The claim: Donald Trump can't travel to Canada because he is a convicted felon. A Dec. 3 Threads post (direct link, archive link) offers a theory as to why Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ...