The Post gets results dep’t: Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner announced plans Wednesday to introduce a bill amending the Criminal Code so as to “ restore the value of Canadian citizenship by ending the practice of judges considering a non-citizen’s immigration status in sentencing .” In 2013, the Supreme Court ruled in R. v. Pham that it was legitimate, in some circumstances, to adjust criminal sentences downward to spare convicted non-citizens from deportation or other immigration-related consequences.

As our columnist Jamie Sarkonak has argued through tireless accumulation of examples, this has led to a spate of deliberately softened sentences for non-citizens perpetrating odious crimes. Rempel Garner and the Tories hope to explicitly Pham-proof the Code and

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