🇨🇦 Ontario judge discounts violent sex assault sentence for permanent resident facing deportation

Canada in one headline: deportation is treated as a hardship for the criminal, not a basic act of self-respect by the country he violated. A judge reportedly said five years was fit for Sergio Reyes Loor, an Ecuadorian permanent resident convicted of sexual assault causing bodily harm, then cut it to four because removal from Canada would make the punishment harsher. That is elite legal logic in a decaying state: the foreign offender gets sentencing sympathy for the possibility of losing access to Canada after violently destroying a woman’s safety. As reported, the Crown sought five years and even the judge called that appropriate.

This is what sovereignty erosion looks like in practice. Permanent residency is supposed to be conditional on obeying the laws of the country, not a shield that softens punishment when those laws are shattered. The victim gets trauma, the public gets another lesson in judicial compassion for the wrong person, and Canadians are told this is proportional justice. No, it is a system that now treats deportation as cruelty and national self-protection as an inconvenience.

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