Compassion for Non-Citizen Criminals in Canadian Law

"A senior Liberal [Member of Parliament Kevin Lamoureux] debating my bill to stop leniency for serious crimes said this: 'If someone is going out raping another individual, do we really believe they'll get special treatment from a judge'?"

"The next day, there was a story of a non-Canadian raping a 13-year-old girl and impregnating her twice, and the rapist was given an adjournment to see the impact of a guilty pleas on what? His immigration status."

"Will the Liberals admit they were wrong?" 

Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner

Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner. Photo by Adrian Wyld /The Canadian Press

 

"There are individuals who make bad decisions. Sometimes it does not necessarily justify a deportation."

"At the end of the day, with the types of crime that are being suggested, people are going to be deported anyway."

"If someone is going out there and raping another individual, do we really believe that they are going to get special treatment from a judge when they go before a court?"

"It is nowhere near the degree to which the Conservatives are trying to put it on the record."

Liberal MP Kevin Lamoureux

 

"There are provisions in place if a non-citizen commits a crime and serves a sentence, they are removed from Canada."

"CBSA [Canada Border Services Agency] works on these cases and they prioritize criminal cases, in fact, when making removals."
Liberal MP Ruby Sahota

The Barrie courthouse at 75 Mulcaster St.  BarrieToday files

 

An unnamed now-47-year-old man, a non-citizen living in Bradford, Ontario pleaded guilty to "two counts of sexual interference, one charge of child luring and another to breaching his release conditions" last week, according to local news outlet BarrieToday. The man had met the girl at a convenience store when he was 44. He groomed her, and than raped her. This occurred on two separate occasions; each time the rape resulted in a pregnancy.

 

One of those pregnancies was carried to term. The  girl, now a few years older, has kept her baby. To protect identities of the girl and child, a publication ban is in place. Court orders to stay away from the girl were ignored by the man. He raped her again while out on release. When he breached conditions of his release a third time he was arrested and since has been  incarcerated for over two and a half years. The man is said to have had 13 children born to women he has been associated with over the years.  

"The actual harm (inflicted) are of the highest magnitude, [listing aggravating details in the case]."

"[The victim’s] normal social interactions were completely fractured. [She will be forever] entangled [with the man because she bore his child]."

"[Her 104-month sentence request was already a] mitigated number'."

Crown attorney Elizabeth Stokes  

The Crown had called for a 8.5-year prison sentence. However, the man, not a Canadian citizen, was permitted an adjournment as a reflection of how a lengthy potential prison sentence would affect his immigrant status. His guilty plea evidently, and his apology, are being weighed in a type of compassionate exoneration of his sexual crimes, specifically the violence suffered by a trusting child whose childhood was essentially viciously ended. 

 

Immigrants are conventionally subject to deportation if convicted of a serious crime. Yet in the past several years, sentencing has tended to favour 'compassion' for crimes committed by immigrants arriving from different cultures. Needless to say, rape as a cultural proclivity does not conform to the values of any civilized society. And much less so violent crimes committed against children. 

 

The man is now due back in court for a sentencing hearing, on January 29, with the Crown seeking a ten-year sentence. This aura of compassion for violent criminals exudes from the ranks of the Liberal government in Canada. The Conservative official opposition has stated time and again its calls for tougher penalties for violent crime, and in this instance such crimes should be viewed through the lens of consequential desserts. 

"In recent years, there have been multiple instances of judges issuing sentences to non-citizens convicted of serious crimes that were designed to allow them to evade deportation."

"[This creates a] two-tiered system between non-citizens and those with Canadian citizenship."

"[This is] unfair [listing seven examples of convicted non-citizens who received] lenient sentences in very recent history."

"Despite the judge admitting that six to 12 months would have been a more appropriate sentence, this was to avoid deportation. The judge even said this." 

Michelle Rempel Garner 

Indeed, before the advent of the Liberal government of Justin Trudeau for the decade following his election in 2015, criminal law application in Canada has been considerably softened in favour of the  criminal class, much to the outrage of Canadian police associations, and certainly of the victims of crime. The 'progressive', left-Liberal government of Canada in that decade -- and continuing under a new Liberal government -- altered much of the traditional values of Canadian society, while inviting an inundation of new immigrants, refugees, illegal migrants without due consideration to their background cultures and histories.  

"[It is an] unbelievable perversion of justice [that non-citizen criminals were receiving lower sentences] in order to allow them to stay."

"It should be a stated policy of our system to get criminals out of Canada."

"If someone is not a citizen, not a Canadian, and commits a crime, then they should be shown the door."

Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre