VIDEO: Canuck judges go easy on Singh School of Truck Driving killers

Q, What happens to an Indian Sikh if he takes his driver's licence test three times and fails every time?

A. He gets to move to Canada as a "foreign student" or "temporary foreign worker".

Then, all to often, this happens. You'll find the name of the transport driver [Not "Singh", shurely! Ed.] below.

Why yes, Ed. it is Singh. (All Sikh men are Singhs, although not all Singhs are Sikhs.) And the driver who caused this horrific crash is one is just one of dozens of Sikhs who have been treated with extreme lenience by Canadian judges in spite of the carnage they cause on the highways of the Great No-longer-white North. 

Why do they get special treatment? Because if they got jail terms of 6 months or more, they would be liable to be deported -- sent back to the Punjab (or "Khalistan", as they would have it) -- once they've done their time. Notice I say "liable". There is no guarantee that they would actually have to leave Canuckstan, since only 3% of deportation orders are ever carried out.

Earlier this month, Ontario trucker Sukhwinder Sidhu was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail for a similar collision in which he plowed his rig into cars stopped at a construction site, killing former Canadian ice dancer Alexandra Paul. 

Two weeks ago, a Thunder Bay ON judge granted an absolute discharge to another Indian, Ajitpal Singh, who caused a fatal head-on collision with another trucker. Mr Singh's sentence was explicitly made light so that he would avoid deportation to India. 

This past January, Lovepreet Singh was sentenced to nine months in jail for driving his truck at full speed into a Toyota Corolla slowing for a construction zone.  A brother and sister trapped inside the burning car were killed.

In April of this year, a Federal Court judge deferred the deportation of Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, the trucker who killed 16 members of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team in 2018 by speeding through a stop sign.  Mr Sidhu who served three-and-a-half years of an eight year sentence for the crash, and was ordered deported, but the judge -- a Liberal appointee like almost all judges in Canada -- granted a 17-month pause in deportation proceedings so that Mr Sidhu would have time to seek a permanent stay of deportation on "humanitarian and compassionate" grounds. 

Also in April, a BC judge gave 90 days of house arrest to trucker Dalvir Singh Jhattu for a 2023 crash that, according to police, could have easily have killed multiple people. Jhattu drove his tractor trailer at full speed into a tow truck that was in the midst of attaching a Mercedes that had been impounded by the RCMP. That's the crash shown in the video.

The latest incident of judicial insanity occurred this week in Kamloops BC, when Harpreet Singh pleAded guilty to driving without due care and attention in an April 2024 crash where his tractor trailer crossed the centre line and collided with a CN Rail work truck. Both vehicles exploded in flames after colliding. 

Harpreet Singh came to Canada from India in 2023, the year before the collision. One of those who met a fiery death was his passenger, Dharminder Singh. Also killed was Juver Balmores, a CN Rail employee and father of three.

Astonishingly, Crown prosecutors did not pursue criminal charges against Mr Singh, agreeing instead to a fine of C$2000 (about $1460 in real money) and 18 months of probation. Will he be deported? Will he at least be banned from driving for life? Chances are two -- slim and none.

Further reading: "Peel police seek suspects in ‘prolific’ fuel fraud involving commercial trucks", CP24, 28/5/26. You won't read the words "Singh" or "Sikh" but check out the photo, and of course, it's Brampton.

UPDATED: The menace on Canadian highways

Readers outside Canada may not have understood the reference to Sikh truck drivers in "Canuckistan immigration: Refugees prioritized over skilled workers", WWW 23/1/22. Here's a true (but not funny) story.

6 April 2018 was a clear, sunny day in central Saskatchewan. Roads were bare and dry. Flat and straight too, as roads in that part of Canada tend to be. An 18-wheeler travelling at about 60 mph through a flashing stop signal at the intersection of Highways 35 and 335, and collided with a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos, a junior hockey team enroute to a game.

16 people were killed. 13 were injured, some of them for life. It took the Mounties a full three months to charge the driver of the semi, 29-year-old Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, with 16 counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death and 13 counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing bodily injury. 

Mr Sidhu is a Sikh. (Not all Singhs are Sikhs, but all Sikhs are Singhs.) He had come to Canada as a "student", and been allowed to stay as a permanent resident under the forerunner to Immigration & Refugee Canada's TR2PR programme, explained in yesterday's post. 

Another six months passed before Mr Sidhu pleaded guilty to the charges. He appeared in court without the turban which religious Sikh men must wear, but kept his beard and (one presumes) his special holy underpants. Whether he was carrying a kirpan is unknown.

Mr Sidhu was sentenced to 8 years in prison -- 6 months for each life he took. Under Canadian law, a sentence of that length should lead to immediate deportation, once the convict has done his time. But Mr Sidhu's lawyer has already sent volumes of paperwork to the Canada Border Services Agency arguing that his client should be allowed to stay in Canada "on compassionate grounds". 

Somewhere along the line -- surely not while he was out on bail -- Mr Sidhu got married. It wouldn't do to deprive his wife and child of their husband and father. Moreover, his lawyer says, Mr Sidhu is suffering from PTSD. "This never leaves (Sidhu) so he's battling his own post-traumatic stress as are so many people who've been touched by this. He’s...really committed to making something positive out of a terrible situation."

One of those who were "touched", Chris Joseph, whose son Jaxon died in the crash, is one of several Broncos families who have written letters asking for Sidhu to be deported. He told the Red Deer Advocate that deportation is the law and laws are there for a reason. "I can appreciate how 29 families can feel different ways about him but, in my view, the matter of deportation is not about forgiveness. It's not about how you feel about a person. It's not about whether you think he made a single mistake. If he’s deported, I could maybe even toy with the idea of considering forgiveness. But if he’s not deported, then we're going to be even more hurt and I don't think I'll ever get to that place." 

A decision was expected in November, but has been delayed until "later". Nothing to do with the Liberal government's "diversity and inclusiveness" agenda, of course.

Even if Mr Singh Sidhu is deported -- and you are advised not to bet on that -- there will be 1000s of other turbaned truck drivers barrelling along Canadian highways, especially in the "Greater" Toronto Area, just as they would do at home in "Khalistan". That you can bet on!

UPDATE added 8/2/22. A 22-year-old man is facing charges after he allegedly stole a vehicle from a Mississauga ON residence, then struck two unmarked police vehicles while attempting to evade arrest. Inspector Knacker of the Peel Police says that the vehicle was taken from a residence in the4 morning of 4 February. 

Investigators located the occupied vehicle in Etobicoke ON a short time later. It is alleged that the driver attempted to flee but struck two unmarked police vehicles. He then tried to get away on foot but was taken into custody. A suspect, identified as Gursimranpreet Singh, is now charged with possession of stolen property and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle.