Distracted driving vs citizenship application?

[Lady_Ashka]

Dear All, am I right that a distracted driving conviction (using a phone on a red light), which is under the Ontario Highway Act, is NOT a criminal offense but a traffic offense (I think it was a fine, a couple of demerit points and 3 day license suspension or something like that), and so does not impact eligibility for applying for citizenship?

Is it also true that, since it is not an indictable offense (and there are no other offenses he has), all the questions regarding criminality on the citizenship application can be honestly answered as "no" (as in: can my friend answer no to all these questions and not mention this at all)?

There doesn't seem to be anywhere on the application to notify them of this, there are no questions regarding speeding tickets either, and there is no indication they want people to inform them of such traffic offenses (like in additional letters etc), so I assume this is not an issue, am I right?

 

[armoured]

Not a criminal offence, no need to inform about simple traffic offences.

 

[Lady_Ashka]

thank you very much