🇨🇦 Toronto soldiers arrested on kidnapping, weapons theft and organized crime charges

Two serving reservists in Toronto get arrested on kidnapping, organized crime, and theft of firearms and weapons, and the system still needs an administrative review before deciding whether they should remain in uniform. That is the absurd part confirmed late Friday. Sachintha Fernando and James Moreau were only removed from duties and blocked from bases and equipment after their August arrests. Efficient as always, Ottawa style.

These are not random civilians. They were members of the 7th Toronto Regiment at Moss Park Armoury, both bombardiers, and one source says both taught new recruits at CFB Borden. One joined in 2020, the other deployed on Operation LASER in 2020, the grand era when the state lectured everyone about trust, duty, and public safety. Yet inside the institutions themselves, basic standards somehow become optional until after police move in. This is what managerial Canada produces: layers of procedural fairness for insiders, endless risk for the public, and a military bureaucracy that reacts only when the scandal is already sitting in handcuffs.

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