National Post: Don’t Deport Truck Driver Who Killed 16 Canadian Teens

What is going on with Canadian newspapers? As I reported last week, The Globe and Mail ran an opinion piece called, "The State of the Union was a zoo — and Team USA the monkeys." A columnist for The Toronto Star shamed Team USA and Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews, claiming that Matthews had put the party and President Trump above the playoffs by visiting the White House, preferring "to be feted by a president who dismisses the very idea of Canadian sovereignty."

It's a joke. Canada is a joke. Deal with it.

Yes, the Canadians are still butthurt about losing the Olympic gold to Team USA. But that hasn't stopped them from sharing bad takes on other issues. As I wrote the other night, The Wall Street Journal seemed to think it was a bad thing that the Trump administration was making it harder for asylum-seekers and refugees to get their commercial driver's licenses by requiring them to know enough English to read road signs.

The Trump administration is cracking down on trucker licenses, using an English test to eliminate many foreign-born drivers and blocking asylum seekers and refugees https://t.co/hSGi0bwEMX
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) March 1, 2026

Harsimran Singh, who owns a trucking company in Manteca, Calif., has found it harder to find drivers since the crackdown on English skills as foreign-born truckers are becoming worried about traveling to certain states. Jobs that required hauling goods to the Minneapolis area have been hard to fill in recent weeks, he said.
“Everyone’s afraid,” said Harsimran.
The founder of the Punjabi trucking association, Raman Dhillon, says the group is losing members for jobs in construction and food delivery. It had around 2,500 members at its peak in 2023 and 2024; now it has 2,000.

Everyone's afraid of truckers not knowing how to read. Still, states are handing out CDLs like candy.

It's apparently a problem in Canada as well. John Manley writes in The National Post that the Indian immigrant who ran a stop sign and crashed into a bus, killing 16 teenagers, has already paid his debt to society, so why deport him?

The 2018 crash involving the Humboldt Broncos is one of the most devastating tragedies in recent Canadian history. Sixteen people lost their lives. Families were forever changed. Nothing can diminish this loss, but the fact remains that it was an accident, caused when a truck driver drove through a stop sign at a dangerous intersection. Who among us can say we have never done anything similar?
The difference this time is that a small mistake had catastrophic consequences. The driver of the truck, Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, did everything asked of a defendant who runs afoul of the law. He co-operated with the RCMP. To spare the families the ordeal of a trial, he pleaded guilty at his first opportunity, accepting full responsibility, even though numerous other factors contributed to the accident.
A judge sentenced Sidhu to eight years in prison in 2019, an unusually long sentence for this offence, and he was granted full parole in 2023. The criminal justice system did its work. It determined guilt and imposed a stiff sentence. Now, even though Sidhu has served his sentence, our government faces a new question: should he and his family be allowed to get on with their lives — or should he be expelled from the country?
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But for us, as Canadians, the real question is a moral one: what kind of country do we want? Are we a nation that is punitive, vengeful and mean-spirited, or are we a country that can demonstrate mercy, compassion and forgiveness? If the latter, can we demonstrate these Canadian values, even when the victims were junior hockey players and the offender was an immigrant?

Barf. "Are we a nation that is punitive, vengeful and mean-spirited, or are we a country that can demonstrate mercy, compassion and forgiveness?" What's vengeful about sending the guy there illegally back to his home country? I was well aware of all of the bleeding hearts in the U.S. who don't want illegal alien murderers, rapists, and child molesters deported, but I didn't know Canada suffered from the same brain-rot.

He can move on with his life in his home country. He’s caused enough harm in the one that offered him a home & he killed 16 children for that charity.
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) March 3, 2026

“A judge sentenced Sidhu to eight years in prison in 2019, an unusually long sentence for this offence…”
Is eight years for killing sixteen people deemed unusually long in Canada?
— AKFortyOuncer (@AKfortyOuncer) March 3, 2026

I don't think he should be deported either. pic.twitter.com/v2B4fkzlWl
— Cesare Borgia (@SirCesareBorgia) March 3, 2026

Agreed. Don't deport him. Execute him.
— Lionidas (@JR98726272) March 2, 2026

I...have not done anything similar pic.twitter.com/fNpiKHbXZG
— Gunton Blurpus (@CentipedeMouse) March 2, 2026

John Manley should be deported with him. 👋🏻🖕🏻
— 𝔽𝕝𝕪𝕟𝕟ℤ𝕖𝕣𝕠 (@FlynnZero21) March 3, 2026

Nope. He should be deported immediately, and that's actually being extremely generous and moderate.
— Vinny Catraz 🏴‍☠️ (@CatrazVinny) March 3, 2026

Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, had 70 safety violations in the 11 days leading up to his dangerous driving. He killed 16 people and seriously injuring 13 others in the Humboldt massacre. He wasn't even legally allowed to be DRIVING.
— Natasha Montreal (@NatashaMontreal) March 3, 2026

I'm really hoping this is just ragebait, but even so it is in astonishingly poor taste. If he has indeed "paid his debt to society", it is only because, as a society, we value those young men's lives so little.
— Applied Epistemologist (@ChMark161) March 2, 2026

I remember writing last summer about 1.5 million people signing an online petition calling for "fair sentencing" for Harjinder Singh, the truck driver who killed three in Florida while making an illegal U-turn. Not surprisingly, it was all Indians who had signed. "Should he and his family be allowed to get on with their lives?" Yes, in India. The families of those 16 teens will never be allowed to just "get on with their lives."

I guess I didn't need a reminder that Canada is as weak as the United States when it comes to deportation.

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