1) For the first offence: $600 fine, 1-year driving prohibition;

2) For the second offence: 14 days jail, 2-year driving prohibition;

3) For the third or subsequent offence: 90 days jail, 3-year driving prohibition.

On Dec 15, 2005, Charly Hart of Watford, Ontario, a man with a 35-year history of impaired driving which included thirty-nine convictions, was on the occasion of his latest such conviction sentenced to six years in prison, the most severe penalty ever handed down in Canada when the offence did not involve a fatality, and the maximum sentence permitted under the law