Law360 Canada ( March 20, 2026, 11:38 AM EDT) -- Appeal by the Crown from a judgment of the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal which set aside a conviction and entered an acquittal. The RCMP received a complaint of impaired driving against Singer. Officers identified a vehicle matching the description in the complaint parked in a residential driveway. The truck was running with its lights on. They stepped onto the driveway to approach the vehicle and found Singer asleep or passed out in the driver’s seat. Having failed to wake him by knocking on the windows, they opened the door of the truck and roused him from his sleep. They observed signs of impairment by alcohol. Singer provided a roadside breath sample, which registered as a “fail.” He was arrested and taken into custody, where he refused to provide a further breath sample. He was charged with impaired driving and refusing to comply with a demand to provide a breath sample. At trial, Singer argued that the police breached his right under s. 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Charter) by entering his driveway without permission or a search warrant. The trial judge dismissed the Charter application and found Singer guilty of refusing to comply with a demand to provide a breath sample. The Court of Appeal, concluding that the police did not have an implied licence to enter a driveway in order to investigate an impaired driving complaint, quashed the conviction and entered an acquittal. It did not address Singer’s second ground of appeal. Now, before the Court, the Crown argued, among other things, that the police were authorized to enter the driveway and to open Singer’s truck door under the implied licence doctrine. Singer disagreed....