Instruments current as cited
What does that ticket actually cost?
Ontario and Québec price traffic offences through different machinery. Pick the province that issued your notice and read the amount with the instrument it comes from.
- Every figure cites its instrument
- Ontario and Québec, always stamped
- No lookup, no account
Two provinces
Which province issued the ticket?
Nothing here is guessed from your language. Ontario and Québec price traffic offences through different instruments, so the province decides which rules you are reading — and a francophone driver in Ottawa is an Ontario driver.
An offence notice, a set fine item number, and an administrative schedule published outside the Act. Demerit points run on their own regulation and their own clock.
Figures
Three numbers
Read off the payload, one per province plus the clock they do not share. Nothing here is an average.
- $5.00ONTARIO — service cost added on an offence noticeCosts regulation, item 1 — not a fine and not a total
- $30.00QUÉBEC — the base amount every speeding fine starts fromBefore any tranche of the excess is pricedQUÉBECSourceCode de la sécurité routière, RLRQ c. C-24.2, art. 516, al. 1, 1°-5° · Current as of 2 April 2026
- 2 yearsONTARIO and QUÉBEC — how long a conviction counts for pointsOntario counts from the date of the OFFENCE; Québec from the date of the JUDGMENT. Two clocks, and they measure different things.
How it works
How to read your own notice
- Find the provinceAn Ontario offence notice prints a set-fine item number; a Québec constat d’infraction prints the article of the CSR. They are different documents and they are priced by different instruments.
- Find the instrumentOntario set fines come from a consolidation published by the Office of the Chief Justice, not from the statute. Québec amounts come from the article itself, usually as a formula or a range.
- Add what comes with itNeither province’s total is one number. Ontario adds a victim fine surcharge and costs; Québec adds frais and a contribution. Each term has its own instrument.
Overview
Got a ticket? Start with which province issued it.
Everything on this site branches there first, because the two provinces share no fine formula, no points ladder and no clock.
- Find the province
- Find the instrument
- Add what comes with it
Calculator
The speeding calculator
Ontario’s two independent price ladders and Québec’s base-plus-tranche formula, each driven by the instrument that states it. Both are drawn below at a worked excess read off the payload’s own band boundaries.
Ontario prices speeding twice
A set fine you can settle out of court, and a statutory fine a court imposes on conviction. They share band boundaries and share no rates — and at the top of the ladder only one of them exists.
Schedule B
$75.00
Provision 128(14)
$90.00
Québec prices speeding by complete tranches
A base amount plus a rate applied to every complete tranche of the total excess, where the rate is chosen by the band the total excess lands in. It is a band lookup, not a marginal bracket calculation.
$30.00 + $10.00 × 2 = $50.00Counted — complete tranches
2 × 5 km/h
Not counted — the remainder
+ 1 km/h
11 km/h = 2 × 5 km/h + 1 km/h
The whole excess is priced at the band’s rate. The band is chosen by the TOTAL excess and then applies to every complete tranche of it — this is a band lookup, not a marginal bracket calculation, and reading it the other way produces a smaller wrong number for every excess that crosses a boundary. The remainder below one whole tranche is not counted.
Tools
What this site does
Both provinces, one vocabulary each — and every surface says which one it speaks for.
- Speeding finesOntario’s two independent price ladders and Québec’s base-plus-tranche formula, calculated from the instruments that state them.
- Your ticketAn Ontario offence notice and a Québec constat d’infraction are different documents. What each one prints, and what it commits you to.
- Demerit pointsTwo provinces, four ladders and two different clocks. What each threshold does, what it does not fix, and when points stop counting.
- Stunt driving and racingThe Ontario offences that carry no out-of-court settlement at all, and the Québec article the market calls grand excès de vitesse.
- Fight a ticketWhat contesting changes, what it does not, and the one thing the instruments read for this site do not settle about the printed amount.
- ViolationsThe set fine and fine-range tables for both provinces, rendered from the payload with the provision beside every row.
Findings
What the law does NOT say
These are findings, not gaps. Where an instrument states an absence, this site prints the absence — never a blank, a dash or a zero.
N.S.F. is an inference on this site, never a definition
“Grand excès de vitesse” is not the Code’s own phrase
Québec states no dollar figure for dangerous driving
FAQ
Questions
Scope
What this site covers
Covered
Ontario and Québec only. Those are the two jurisdictions whose instruments have been read for this site, and every figure here belongs to one of them.
Unmeasured here
Eleven further provinces and territories are UNMEASURED here — that means they have not been read for this site, not that they are absent from Canada’s fine landscape. Nothing on this site is a national claim.
Out of scope
Municipal by-law offences — parking above all — are priced by roughly four hundred municipalities and are out of scope. This site prices provincial offences.
Next step
Start with the number on your own notice
Then read the instrument beside it, and decide what to do next.