Canadian permanent residents with an impaired driving conviction can lose their status and be deported under a strict change to the criminal code.

Bill C-46 changes the law so that all impaired driving offences are considered 'serious criminality'.

The new provisions received Royal Assent on June 21, 2018 and comes into affect 180 days afterwards. It increases the maximum imprisonment for impaired driving to 10 years from five years.

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