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A federal judge has reserved his decision in the deportation case of the truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash.

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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

This is such a tough one. One the one hand, its possible that he really should never have been admitted in the first place. Canada needs to be more strict in who's allowed to come and study work here.

On the other hand, this man is clearly remorseful and has taken responsibillity for the twist of fate that nobody could have forseen, although there have been warnings about that driving area going back a decade.

Its tough because he's setting an insane precedent here. Its in some sense saying you can have a shitty trucking company and hire immigrants on the cheap, not train them sufficiently, and combined with the danger of that area already, allow this situation to happen and all its gonna be is a civil fine for you and deportation and/or prison for the chump you suckered into cheap labour.

I dunno. Uggh

[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

or prison for the chump you suckered into cheap labour.

I'm not seeing the 'or' bit. The article says the driver was already sentenced to nine years back in 2019. So it might be prison and deportation.

It also says he was a new permanent resident when the crime was committed. I'm surprised how they can so easily deport someone who has PR.

allow this situation to happen and all its gonna be is a civil fine for you

Alas, this is the real problem. And this case/hearing isn't going to affect the precedent on that, it will only affect the precedent for the future chumps.

[–] StarkDay@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It also says he was a new permanent resident when the crime was committed. I'm surprised how they can so easily deport someone who has PR.

He would have become inadmissible and lost his PR status for serious criminality due to his conviction in 2019

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

If anything, I would like there to be way more press coverage and investigative journalism and legal scrutiny paid to this little mom and pop friendly neighbourhood immigrant-staffed (like abusing as well) trucking company.

They really skated by while leaving this poor guy out to dry and down the river.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Fixed to and/or

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