Federal Court judge reserves decision on deportation of truck driver in Broncos crash
A lawyer for the truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash told a federal judge Wednesday that the Canada Border Services Agency should not have recommended his client be deported.
Jaskirat Singh Sidhu was sentenced in 2019 to eight years after he pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death and bodily harm in the Saskatchewan crash that killed 16 people and injured 13 others.
He has since been granted full parole and is working in construction in Calgary while he fights the recommendation by the border agency that he be handed over to the Immigration and Refugee Board to decide whether he should be deported to India.
Federal Court Chief Justice Paul Crampton did not give a date for when he would have a decision but, because of the gravity of the case, said he would make it a priority.