FAQ
Questions
Short answers, each pointing at the provision it rests on.
Draft for review. Every figure on this page is transcribed from the instrument cited beside it; the reviewer of record has not signed the values off. Check the cited provision before relying on an amount.
Answers
Answered from the instruments, not from practice
Every answer below names the instrument it rests on, and points at the page that carries the same question at length. Nothing here is answered from practice, from what a court usually does, or from what an officer might accept — where the instruments read for this site do not settle something, the answer says so and shows the readings instead of choosing one. Open a question to read its answer and the pages it is also filed under.
- Distracted Driving Fines by Province in CanadaA first distracted-driving conviction adds demerit points almost everywhere in Canada, but the dollar fine — and what counts as a distraction — changes by province.
- Stunt Driving in Ontario: Seized at the RoadsideCross a defined speed threshold in Ontario and the province does not wait for a court date. The licence suspension and the impoundment start at the roadside.
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.