Canadian Criminal Pardon Services
1111 Finch Ave W M3J 2E5 Toronto, ON, Canada

The process for applying to have a criminal record sealed differs for those convicted of indictable offenses and summary offenses. Generally, for a summary offence an offender must wait three years and for an indictable offense the offender must wait fiv

In Canada, offenders are given the opportunity to seal their criminal records from the public domain as long as they are not reconvicted of a subsequent crime after having served their initial sentence. After sealing of the offender’s record the police

As of 2001, there were over 3 million of the total population of Canada that had a criminal record (Correctional Services of Canada, 2001). This would equate to approximately ten percent of the total population, or looked at another way- one in every ten