Jaskirat Singh Sidhu is from India and has everlasting resident standing in Canada.
Ottawa:
An Indian-origin truck driver who prompted a horrific bus crash in Canada that killed 16 members and injured 13 others of a junior hockey crew in 2018 was on Friday ordered to be deported to India.
Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, a truck driver from Calgary, barreled by a cease signal and into the trail of the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey crew’s bus at a rural intersection close to Tisdale in Saskatchewan Province.
Sixteen folks on the bus have been killed and 13 have been injured within the accident on April 6, 2018.
The choice got here on Friday at an Immigration and Refugee Board listening to in Calgary for Sidhu.
Sidhu’s lawyer Michael Greene has mentioned the choice was a foregone conclusion, as all that is required to deport Sidhu is proof that he isn’t a Canadian citizen and he dedicated a severe crime, CBC Information reported.
Sidhu is from India and has everlasting resident standing in Canada.
“It is fairly open and shut,” Greene was quoted as saying by the Canadian Press information company.
“There’s nothing to contest, so these are as clear as day. These hearings are normally performed lickety-split.” He was granted parole after being sentenced to eight years for harmful driving within the 2018 bus crash.
Sidhu’s lawyer has mentioned there are nonetheless quite a few different authorized procedures to come back, and the deportation course of may take months or years.
In December, the Federal Court docket dismissed purposes from Sidhu’s lawyer, who had argued border officers didn’t contemplate Sidhu’s beforehand clear prison report and regret. He wished the court docket to order the border company to conduct a second evaluation.
“That is a part of the disappointment of the entire course of. We’re left with a state of affairs the place everlasting residents don’t have any rights in anyway to have their private circumstances thought of,” Greene mentioned, earlier than Friday’s listening to.
“Our solely mechanism is (that) after he is ordered deported, we will ask them to provide again his (everlasting resident) standing (primarily based) on humanitarian grounds.
“However within the meantime, he has no standing.” Greene mentioned Sidhu will not instantly be taken into custody after the listening to is over, the report mentioned.
He mentioned a pre-removal threat evaluation needs to be carried out and Sidhu can even ask for a deferral whereas his request for everlasting resident standing is taken into account.
The method, Greene mentioned, may take months or years.
A number of members of the family of these killed within the crash have mentioned they need Sidhu deported.
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