According to the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, drivers convicted of a driving related offence in the State of New York, the State of Michigan or any Canadian province or territory, will have home jurisdictional penalties such as demerit points and/or suspensions applied to their Ontario driver record as if the offence occurred in Ontario. In Ontario speeding is worth 3, 4 or 6 demerit points.
While the second ticket, for the equipment problem of a brake light being out, may not transfer to Ontario but the speeding ticket will if you plead guilty. To find out the amount of your fines you will need to contact the court listed on your ticket. The clerk of the court should be able to tell you if the fines could be reduced if you plead guilty with reason, but generally this does not help the amount of the fine.
Examples of out-of-province convictions where Ontario demerit points and /or suspensions will be applied include:
Traffic
- Speeding
- Fail to obey stop sign
- Fail to obey signal light
- Fail to stop for school bus
- Racing
- Fail to remain or return to the scene of a collision
- Careless driving
Criminal
- Motor manslaughter
- Criminal negligence
- Dangerous driving
- Failure to remain at scene of a collision
- Impaired Driving
- Driving while disqualified or prohibited
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