From DAILY MAIL: An Indian national who blew through a stop sign and killed 16 members of a junior ice hockey team is fighting his deportation from Canada on humanitarian grounds.
Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, 37, barreled through the sign at 53 to 60mph before striking a bus carrying players from the Humboldt Broncos in rural Saskatchewan on April 6, 2018.
Sidhu pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death and was jailed for eight years in March 2019, but he was released on parole after just four years and four months behind bars.
Sidhu is now living with his Canadian wife and children, but the Immigration and Refugee Board removed his permanent resident status and ordered his deportation.
A pre-removal risk assessment determined Sidhu would not be in danger upon return to India.
The Canadian Border Services Agency is set to begin the deportation process, per CBC, but Sidhu’s attorney, Michael Greene, said he has filed an application to allow Sidhu to remain in Canada on humanitarian and compassionate grounds.
Greene argued against deportation, citing Sidhu’s young children and his mental health issues.
Greene is asking the CBSA to temporarily defer Sidhu’s removal from the country until the application is evaluated, which may take another two years. He called the case as a litmus test for Canadians.”
“To what extent are we a generous and forgiving country? And to what extent are we punitive?” he asked in a statement. “I think if you look at [Sidhu] as a whole, he’s a really good man who made a terrible mistake that had, because of just split-second timing, incredibly terrible consequences.”
Read more at Daily Mail
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