🇨🇦 Sharia Stalker Gets 75 Days — Served on Wednesdays and Thursdays

Raed Ahmad Sariss arrived in Canada in 2018, harassed a woman 22 years his junior for six months because he wanted her as a second wife — which he considered his right under Sharia law — violated his release conditions, and was sentenced to 75 days in jail, served intermittently. Two days a week. The Crown asked for six to nine months. The judge gave him long weekends. His immigration status at the time of sentencing was already flagged inadmissible — yet he was still fighting for permanent residency and to bring his Manila-based wife and children to Canada.

To his credit, Judge Galiatsatos explicitly rejected the idea of a parallel justice system for immigrants. But 75 intermittent days for a premeditated stalking campaign rooted in — the judge's own words — values of domination and control tells you everything about the gap between legal principle and actual consequences. Pierre Poilievre had it right: if you are not a citizen and you commit a crime, you get shown the door. Full stop.

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