Opinion: Deporting Humboldt truck driver would be vengeance, not justice
Sometime this spring or summer, the Canada Border Services Agency will decide whether to refer Jaskirat Sidhu to an immigration hearing that would result in his automatic deportation, with no right of appeal. Sidhu drove the tractor trailer that collided in 2018 with a bus carrying the Humboldt junior hockey team, killing 16 and injuring 13.
Sidhu received an eight-year sentence for dangerous driving — far and away the longest prison term ever imposed in Canada for a dangerous driving conviction that didn’t involve alcohol, drugs or purposeful misbehaviour.