If you are charged with an impaired driving offence in Alberta your Drivers license will be suspended immediately for 90 days and can only be reinstated once those charges are resolved or you successfully appeal that suspension to the Alberta Transportation and Safety Board. After the 90 days there will be a further provincial sanction of one year where you can only drive with the ignition interlock device. If you are convicted of an impaired driving offence in Canada there is a mandatory minimum sentence of a $1000 fine for a first offence (if below 120 mg of alcohol in 100 ml of blood), and a driving prohibition of at least 1 year. You will also be subject to provincial requirements to have your license fully reinstated including participating in the Ignition Interlock Program. 

For more information:

• Province of Alberta Sanctions

• Criminal Sanctions

It is strongly recommended that before you decide to plead guilty to a criminal driving offence you should have your disclosure reviewed by a lawyer with experience in this technical area of the law. It is very possible that the peace officers who undertook the investigation violated your rights without you knowing.  Anytime a Canadian citizen is involved an an impaired driving investigation many of their Charter rights are engaged, including section 7, 8, 9, and 10. Calgary criminal defence lawyer Curtis D. Mennie has that experience having worked under Road Lawyers where he reviewed and prepped countless files in the technical area of impaired driving law. Curtis Mennie does not charge for consultations with respect to these offences. 

• Impaired operation/care or control of a conveyance - S.320.14(1)(a)

• Over 80 operation/care or control of a conveyance - S.320.14(b)

• Refusal to comply with demand - S.320.15(1)

• Dangerous operation of a conveyance - S.320.13(1)

• Operation while prohibited - S.320.18(1)

• Failure to stop at the scene of an accident - S.320.16(1)