Does Alberta share driving records with other provinces?
I'm specifically interested in whether Alberta has an agreement with Quebec to share driving infractions.
If I got 2 tickets in Quebec (while driving with an Ontario license), will the details of the tickets be shared with the Alberta ministry? Your help is appreciated.
Details:
11 months ago I was living in Ontario and working on a project in Quebec. I was pulled over and received 2 tickets - speeding and expired insurance.
I was probably speeding and I did show an expired insurance card. But, the officer never told me about the insurance ticket, and never spoke english even when I said I do not speak french, so I didn't get the chance to show him that the up-to-date insurance card was in the glove box too, I had just grabbed the wrong one (work truck, I just showed the first card I found).
I mailed in my non-guilty plea and waited for a court date in the mail. Court date never came. Yesterday I got mail saying I had missed my court date and was found guilty by default. Now there are plenty of hoops to jumped through and lawyers to be paid in order to have the case reopened. If Alberta is not going to find out about these tickets, I'll just pay them and not worry about the insurance hit and demerits that I'll receive. I was going pretty fast... there's going to be some demerits (to be fair, it was a 70km/h zone with 4 lanes, concrete median, on/off-ramps. Looked like a 90-100 km/h zone).
Any info is appreciated!
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