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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 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

[–] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah, the real criminals here are the transportation company here if you ask me. Their actions amount to negligence at best and reckless endangerment at worst if you ask me.

The fact that they are getting away with a fine while the driver gets both jail time and deportation is a miscarriage of justice if you ask me.

Furthermore, it's clear he's remorseful for what happened and does not pose a further risk to society. At the very least we should extend him the courtesy of a second chance.

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