The man who was sentenced for causing the fatal Humboldt Broncos bus crash in 2018, lost his first bid to stay in Canada after his sentence.
A spokesperson for the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) says the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), which rejected the first bid for Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, referred the case to the IRB for an admissibility hearing. No date for the hearing has been set yet.
An admissibility hearing determines whether a referred person – whether a permanent resident or a foreign national – is allowed to enter into or stay in Canada, and these are held by the Immigration Division of the IRB.
According to Legal Aid Ontario on its website, an admissibility hearing could be set up for reasons such as criminal convictions, membership in a criminal organization, human or international rights violations, risk to security in Canada, misrepresentation or not being truthful in immigration applications, and/or failure to comply with the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA).
Sidhu was sentenced to 8 years in prison after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing death and bodily harm, after the crash that killed 16 people and injured 13.
The Broncos were en route to a playoff game in Nipawin when a semi-truck, driven by Sidhu drove past a stop sign at collided with the SJHL team’s bus at the intersection of Highways 335 and 35, near Tisdale.
While Sidhu faces the possibility of being deported to India once his sentence wraps up, reports say he is planning on challenging the CBSA’s decision in federal court.