The applicant, convicted of impaired driving in New York, sought to quash the automatic one-year suspension of his Ontario driver's licence under section 41 of the Highway Traffic Act, arguing the Registrar erred by not considering equivalency to Ontario offences, breaching natural justice, and violating Charter rights.
The court dismissed the application, finding the suspension was automatic by operation of law, not discretionary, and did not engage Charter rights related to liberty, mobility, or cruel and unusual punishment, nor did it violate principles of natural justice or double criminality.
