Dominion Society of Canada - September 19, 2025


It's just not good enough.


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1 minute

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318

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17

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1

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Toxicity

2

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On Wednesday, Conservative MP Michelle Rempel-Gardner introduced a bill that would remove immigration status as a consideration in sentencing for non-citizen crimes. I was quick to point out that this is exactly the wrong approach.

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00:00:00.000 It's just not good enough.
00:00:01.180 On Wednesday, Michelle Rempel-Gardner, the conservative shadow minister for immigration,
00:00:05.200 introduced a private member's bill to amend the criminal code.
00:00:08.060 This action comes in response to several high-profile cases like this one,
00:00:11.620 where a non-citizen Indian immigrant attempted to buy sex from a minor, a 15-year-old, or so he thought.
00:00:18.060 Instead of being deported, Akash Kumar Khan was sentenced to just three months house arrest.
00:00:23.160 Why?
00:00:23.580 Well, the judge didn't want to jeopardize the citizenship process for him or his wife.
00:00:27.780 Michelle's new bill seeks to remove immigration status as a consideration from these types of 0.99
00:00:32.140 crimes. When Michelle announced this on Twitter, I was quick to point out that this was exactly the
00:00:36.700 wrong approach. Of course immigration status should be taken into consideration. If a non-citizen is 1.00
00:00:42.640 convicted of any crime, they should be promptly deported. I don't care if it's littering or
00:00:48.400 jaywalking. If you break the rules, you're out. Immigrants, whether temporary or permanent, 1.00
00:00:53.420 should be held to an even higher standard than Canadians if they want to stay in our country. 1.00
00:00:58.580 Following my response, Michelle immediately deleted her tweet. She reposted it shortly after
00:01:03.300 and modified the language a little bit. She wanted to make it clear that immigration status
00:01:07.420 shouldn't be considered to make more lenient sentences. But what does the bill actually say?
00:01:12.200 As you can see, it's still much closer to what she originally tweeted, that immigration status
00:01:17.280 shouldn't be considered. Look, I'm happy the Conservatives are finally talking about immigration,
00:01:21.220 but this just isn't anywhere close to good enough we are so far past the need for half measures
00:01:25.460 we need strict rules and deportations the conservatives should be shouting from the
00:01:30.020 rooftops that disgusting criminals like can't be deported immediately and demanding all 0.88
00:01:34.740 immigrants adhere to our culture and laws or go back home canada doesn't need half measures 0.99
00:01:40.340 Canada needs re-migration. 1.00