You cut across a supermarket car park at speed, weaving between parked cars. It is private property and not a highway. Can you be charged with careless driving?

Correct answer: D. Yes — careless driving applies in parking lots, public or private, as well as on highways

Yes. HTA s.130(1) makes it an offence to drive "without due care and attention or without reasonable consideration for other persons using the highway **or specified place**", and s.130(8) defines a specified place to include "any parking lot, structure or garage, whether public or private, paved or unpaved, flat or multilevel, above or below grade, including any driveway or road that connects the parking lot to a highway", any lot "into which drivers are expressly or impliedly invited or permitted to enter, with or without payment", and any private, commercial or industrial lot from which the public would ordinarily be excluded. The old intuition that traffic law stops at the edge of the road is simply out of date. Careless driving carries six demerit points wherever it happens.

Source: MTO Driver's Handbook: HTA Section 130(1) and (8) — careless driving in a "specified place"