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03-06-2009, 04:57 PM
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#1 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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| Convicted street racer ordered deported
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VANCOUVER — Almost a decade after she was run down by a racing car on a Vancouver street, the family of Irene Thorpe says they are thankful to the country's highest court for upholding a deportation order for her killer.
In a 7-1 ruling released Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada set aside a Federal Court of Appeal decision that ordered the government to reconsider the deportation of Sukhvir Singh Khosa to India.
“We hope that her case has been given faith to others to know there can be hope and that justice can prevail,” Sharon Goldberg, a friend of the family, said on their behalf.
She said the decision gave Ms. Thorpe's family “some sense of closure.”
“While we are thankful to the Supreme Court for their decision, our lives will always be empty because Irene will not be coming home,” she said.
Mr. Khosa was street racing with Bahadur Bhalru in November 2000 when Mr. Khosa's car lost control and hit Ms. Thorpe as she walked on the sidewalk.
Both men were convicted of criminal negligence causing death in 2002.
The two were given conditional sentences of two years less a day with house arrest, community service and a five-year driving ban. The Immigration Department then moved to send both landed immigrants back to India.
Mr. Bhalru left in 2005 but Mr. Khosa, who moved to Canada in 1996 when he was 14, fought the deportation order on humanitarian and compassionate grounds.
His lawyers argued that he was remorseful, had an otherwise clean record and had good prospects for rehabilitation. They also said deportation to India, which he left more than a decade earlier, would pose hardship for him and his family.
The Immigration Appeal Division refused to rescind the deportation order and he also lost an appeal for judicial review before the Federal Court of Appeal sided with him and set aside the order.
The appeal judges found that the immigration tribunal that ordered the deportation was fixated on Mr. Khosa's denial that he was racing at the time of the accident. This was taken as a lack of real remorse.
However, Justice William Binnie, writing for the majority of the high court, said judges must give due deference to the immigration panel's findings.
“The question whether Khosa had shown ‘sufficient humanitarian and compassionate considerations to warrant relief from his removal order,' which all parties acknowledged to be valid, was a decision which Parliament confided to the IAD, not the courts,” he wrote.
The appeal court was wrong, he added.
“In my view, the majority decision of the IAD was within a range of reasonable outcomes and the majority of the Federal Court of Appeal erred in intervening in this case to quash it.”
Justice Morris Fish dissented from the majority, saying he felt the appeal judges were right in saying the tribunal placed too much emphasis on Mr. Khosa's denial of street racing.
“So much cannot be reasonably made of so little.”
While a full nine-judge panel of the Supreme Court heard the appeal a year ago, only eight judges participated in the final decision because Justice Michel Bastarche retired last June.
Alykhan Velshi, spokesman for Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, said immigrants to Canada have to obey the law.
“Our government takes a zero tolerance approach to illegal street racing. The Supreme Court's decision is an unmitigated victory for the rule of law,” Mr. Velshi said in a statement.
He said the high court decision upholds the Immigration Appeal Division's jurisdiction to decide on deportation and removal issues.
“Khosa lost his status as a permanent resident of Canada due to serious criminality. He is now a foreign national subject to a removal order,” Mr. Velshi said.
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03-06-2009, 05:02 PM
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#2 | | WOAH! i think Vtec just kicked in!
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About fuckin' time.
I thought they'd kicked his ass out years ago and completely forgot about this.
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03-06-2009, 05:02 PM
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#3 | | Banned (ABWS)
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good riddance. how the hell did he manage to stay here for 10 years?
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03-06-2009, 05:05 PM
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#4 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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Originally Posted by Synaptik  good riddance. how the hell did he manage to stay here for 10 years? | probably on our tax dollars too.
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03-06-2009, 05:10 PM
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#5 | | I answer every Emotion with an emoticon
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gjgj, that's how things should be done
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03-06-2009, 05:46 PM
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HELL YEAH!
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03-06-2009, 05:54 PM
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#7 | | NOOB, Not Quite a Regular!
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SEE YA LATER....
Of course now he might pull some bullshit like hiding in a temple so they cannot deport him, like that man that was sick, and was deported....
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03-06-2009, 06:23 PM
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#8 | | I *Fwap* *Fwap* *Fwap* to RS
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GOOD RIDDANCE hopefuly this will serve as a lesson for others.
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03-06-2009, 09:46 PM
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Originally Posted by achiam About fuckin' time.
I thought they'd kicked his ass out years ago and completely forgot about this. | It was the guy who Khosa was racing when the death happened that was deported several years ago.
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03-06-2009, 11:37 PM
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#10 | | I only answer to my username, my real name is Irrelevant!
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they should have had him in the Pre-Trial Centre all this time
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03-06-2009, 11:37 PM
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#11 | | I *Fwap* *Fwap* *Fwap* to RS
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Bye fag
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03-06-2009, 11:50 PM
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#12 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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Good-bye and gone. Peace out.
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03-07-2009, 06:28 AM
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I'm glad he finally got booted but IMO the system is ass backwards. When someone is here illegally or given a deportation order they should be cuffed on the spot, drive to the airport and put on the next plane back. If they want to appeal or fight the deportation they should do it from their own Country on their own dime.
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03-07-2009, 10:16 AM
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took too long
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03-07-2009, 12:22 PM
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#15 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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took them ten, ten years to do something right!
None the less, bye mother fucker
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03-07-2009, 03:14 PM
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#16 | | y'all better put some respeck on my name
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About time if you ask me.
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03-07-2009, 08:13 PM
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#17 | | What hasn't Killed me, has made me more tolerant of RS!
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03-08-2009, 03:22 PM
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#18 | | Hypa owned my ass at least once
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Originally Posted by dual Faith is restored in our justice system. | No.
It just shows how toothless our government is. If our guys take 4+ years to kick out Laibar Singh who gained entry clearly under false pretenses and guys like this took 10 years to deport after the determination of deportation, well...
Now our gov't says they're going to crack down on Gang Crimes in light of the recent shootings. Yeah, how much faith do you think people have? I've seen creditors with more tooth than these guys.  | |
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03-08-2009, 03:23 PM
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#19 | | Limited to Fight Club
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Originally Posted by Noir No.
It just shows how toothless our government is. If our guys take 4+ years to kick out Laibar Singh who gained entry clearly under false pretenses and guys like this took 10 years to deport after the determination of deportation, well...
Now our gov't says they're going to crack down on Gang Crimes in light of the recent shootings. Yeah, how much faith do you think people have? I've seen creditors with more tooth than these guys. |
You fucking racist, you only want them to kick them out because they are brown.
Oh hey, look at the time, you're running late for your KKK meeting.
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03-08-2009, 03:32 PM
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#20 | | Hypa owned my ass at least once
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Originally Posted by Jason00S2000 Oh hey, look at the time, you're running late for your KKK meeting. | These barbecue stains from the last meeting are a bitch to get out. Need some bleach from my mask & robe.
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03-13-2009, 12:54 AM
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So i can run over people in other countries and i'll just get sent back to my own.. wouldnt you consider that a vacation then? Put 'em in jail
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