Once upon a time in Canada, non-citizens who broke the law were deported. No muss, no fuss. If you can’t live within our laws and show contempt for this country, you’re gone.

All that’s changed. As Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner points out, now if you’re a non-citizen and you break the law, your citizenship status will be taken into consideration — so you get a lighter sentence than someone who’s a Canadian citizen.

Rempel Garner points to a recent case in which a permanent resident was given a conditional sentence after being convicted of trying to buy sexual services from a 15-year-old. The judge justified the lighter sentence because a tougher penalty would have hindered the offender and his wife from obtaining Canadian citizenship. This is only the most recent

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