Deportation ordered for truck driver charged in deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash 

I'm not being racist but many drivers from India are driving like crazy in Canada and totally ignoring their safety and the safety of others. When I was driving in Surrey, British Columbia, I saw several drivers who are totally ignoring traffic rules and when I saw their faces, I'm sure they are from India. Those Indians who grew up in Canada and learned their driving skills here are very different from those who learned their driving skills in Indian. That's a FACT!

He gets deported, yet the owner of the company who broke countless safety rules only got a $5000 fine and lost his business. He should also be deported in that case.

What was the total cost to taxpayers for the past 6 years?

He'll come back as a foreign student. Count on it.

Boo hoo, his family is going to get ripped apart? You ripped apart a dozen families

They still have him here?? What a joke

His son has a medical issue, No problem India has the best doctors, hospital and medical care available today. His lawyer should be jailed too, for bringing an another fake loop holes for him to stay here

Deport him and his lawyer.

Should have deported, with no chance to apply for immigration in future with any reason .

Not sure what the big deal is. He killed a bunch of cdns. He is not a citizen nor a landed immigrant. Remove him. Not sure why there is controversy.

I have been to India and I was appalled at what I saw. It is a cultural thing, as they simply do not observe the rules of the road. They do not observe lanes and swerve all over the place...There are many deadly accidents and this is just accepted as being normal... The population is so huge that one human life is apparently not worth very much to them. To turn a newly arrived immigrant from India loose on the Canadian highways before having undergone extensive Canadian based diver training and testing is INSANE.

It appears that Jaskirat Singh Sidhu is now the victim not the 16 lives he took.

He's a fall guy for cheap trucking companies. New immigrants rely on their employment to stay in the country and their employers use that leverage to skirt safety and labour regulations. They'll bribe driving instructors to certify their guys, get them to forge their books so they can drive longer shifts, then wipe their hands clean when one them kills a bus full of kids. Deport him or not, the people above him need to be held accountable. Canadian born truckers have been complaining about these practices for years, but people love free next day delivery.

"Ripping"??? Kind of a tasteless manner to verbalize how he and his family are being impacted, especially with what he's done. His negligence affected so many families taking the lives of so many kids who were among those that died due to this heartbreaking and senseless tragedy.

Deport incompetent drivers/workers

In India , he will enjoy his free life. What a justice

As a tax paying citizen, yes deportation should be done. if more of this happened, there would be less of it. why shouldnt he be held held accountable, as to his family why should we be paying for them?

5 million more deportations and canada will ALMOST feel like home again

His son madical issue is another lie from lawyer.his lawyer should be behind bars for protecting criminals in our country.

He thought he was still driving in India.

Canadian is too kind. If the driver is convicted to be at-fault then he is guilty as charge. At least he is is still breathing and walking while those who passed is not.

The rule of law should apply here......and he should be deported. Why bother putting the laws in place if they are just going to be changed on a whim. If this guy is allowed to stay, then every migrant wo breaks the law in Canada will be allowed to stay too....and anarchy will become the norm !!!!

As long as taxpayers foot the bill, what's the big deal. We're like roadkill and every buzzard around is picking our bones clean.

Situation is out of control in the country due to a corrupted immigration system.

He should be behind bars for a life time sentence.

Just go home

Goddam! It took long enough to deport him! The damage this caused is irreparable and inconceivable.

Now it costs 10000 dollars to get a class one drivers license in Alberta. If they just enforced the law to begin with there would not have been an issue. The guy was not trained properly and there are lots more not trained properly. Now there is not enough truck drivers which costs us more for goods. He should have never been behind that wheel to start with.

He is asking to return his PR on a compassionate and humanitarian grounds. SERIOUSLY??

An East Indian truck driver almost killed us last year on a freeway in BC. He was 100% wrong but as if we tried to kill him, he cussed us. He is a potential murderer.

Deport him! The owner of the company needs to be put in jail!!

Send him back and I guarantee he will be the next scammer calling you

“ he suffered enough “ !!! Talk to the parents of the kids that he killed , ask them if they suffered enough !!

He knowingly broke Canada's laws when he got behind the wheel of a semi type that he wasn't licenced for. He did this while not being a citizen. What would he do if we let him stay and he became a citizen?! He disregarded Canada's laws from the start and this needs to be factored in. As well, I have little compassion for how his family might be ripped apart because he had no compassion for how many families he may tear apart by getting behind the wheel of a semi he wasn't licenced for, and in the end, he tore apart MANY families. I have compassion for him as a human being, but he should not remain in Canada.

When they shout deportation, it sounds like a free life in India is worse than imprisonment in Canada 😂

Canadian government is at fault... to this day, it is so easy to obtain a commercial drivers license, and the test can be taken with an automatic welcome to canada!!

Sidhu's lawyer should be leaving canada with him as well whose trying to protect criminal in our country.

Medical issues? Yet he was driving...😮....there were no brake skid marks, he most likely was tired and was a sleep. And he tried cheating and owner of company owned a unsafe vehicle. He should of got 25 years with owner

So this is mot about the poor victims. This is about the usual. Making themself the center of attention.

He has medical issues that taxpayers will be stuck with. Deport now!!

His family DOES NOT have to "break up"... 🤨 They can join him in India, where they have adequate healthcare to deal with his meal-ticket child. There needs to be a real fear of losing your PRIVILEDGE to be in Canada/USA, for those not born here, that commit indictable offences (Canada's version of a felony).

I live in Brampton, there are many Indians here who are selling driver's licenses. You can buy one for a couple grand without having to take the drivers test. This is why our accident collision rates are so high in the city and Brampton has the highest drivers insurance rates in the country

Since when sending someone back “home” safely, a Punishment?

What a dilution and devaluation of Canadian human lives..this is an invitation to every reckless driving infiltrater to come here and do whatever he wants.

Gotta be one of the worst accidents in Canadian history

This man had caused a tremendous pain to many families. I don’t see any chance even remotely that he should stay in Canada

AS a one time immigrant (and now a 20+ year citizen) of Canada I would say that this decision is JUST and should have been done long time ago.

I've seen similar drivers driving like crazy and when you try to tell them to be lawful, they start threatening back. Serious actions are needed!

Why does it take 3yrs to process something with todays technology

He should be deported and have a ban for reentry.

Too lazy to stop and caused so much pain and suffering for so many. That intersection was clearly marked with a flashing red light on it! I’ve been there.

How did they make him the victim?? How. This is insanity.

He should not be allowed to stay in the country.

How about a review of the system that got this man licensed? Maybe he was not ready to driver a truck if he crashed it within the first month.

Deport and take the students with you. Making lame excuses for him to stay, Jeez, when will Canada learn?

It’s a sad day for Canada. This man has paid his debt, acknowledged his mistake and asked forgiveness from the families affected. He should be allowed to stay! Read the facts given at trial!

He's got health prpblems Boo ! Hoo ! Boo Hoo! what about the folks who lost their children send him back there are a lot of trucks to drive there

This guy served 6 months for each person he killed! Disgraceful! This doesn't even factor in the injured and the grieving families.

Why is the due process so slow in Canada?! why should it get years to deport him? he is not a Canadian citizen and is responsible for taking the lives of 16 beloved children.

Whats the delay? He should have no rights and on the first plane to India

Anyone else notice that the increase of truck driver accidents correlates almost exactly alongside the time that we make Indian truck driving licences count in BC? If you are born in Canada these days it costs $19000 to take the class 1 test, but if you are an Indian immigrant you just need to prove that you drove truck in India and they give the licence to you.

Its tough to deal with a driver to lazy to downshift for a stop, then run through and destroy countless lives, he made the choice to be a bad driver, the kids had no choice to love, live and enjoy the comfort of what Canada is. Now Canada is filled with what. Get him out of our country

when one deport 10000 comes here

very very sad for all involved. Because of poor driver training, lack of regulation regarding driver training, a truck business cutting corners to save some money, lack of monitoring a likely dangerous intersection, a moment of distraction, and so much more, all those lives were changed forever - the young men on the bus, the families of the young men, the bus driver & his family, the young man starting a new job as a truck driver and his family, and so on. My heart breaks for them all.

I do not understand why no one is offering any kind o fcompassion to all who were harmed by that accident including but not limited to all those who lost loved ones in that accident.

You kill 16 and you are still the victim. Canada.

He still has a thousand loopholes to screw our system!

I’m a Canadian truck driver. It’s time to teach these drivers from any other country that we do have laws here. I get passed by trucks being operated by people from his country all the time in most unsafe manner. Often on hilly roads with curves and blind spots. They pull up beside you and then motion to you to slow down so they can complete the take over. How ever in the Humboldt accident I believe it was a matter of not paying attention. But blamed on sunlight blinding the driver. What ever the case was laws are laws. They are there for a reason.

Remind me, how many children did he slaughter? Why this man is being given a potential chance to walk free under "humanitarian" appeals is a baffling example of how disgusting this country has become. This isn't justice. Deportation to his home country is far too kind.

Attitude is a big factor in driving.

I'm not trying to make excuses for this guy. He killed 16 people after all. However it was an accident, now i am not saying there shouldn't be any repercussions for it. However, from my understand the company he worked for had all kinds safety violations and even think there were issues with the truck. Meanwhile here in Canada we're seeing Palestine protesters assaulting jewish people. Bomb threats to jewish schools. We had an active shooter go to a jewish school. We had a 15 year old kid research how to make a bomb and was arrested with bomb making materials on his person, and he allegedly had plans to go bomb some place with a crowd like a synagogue or something. Last christmas we saw Palestinians threatening "i'll put you six feet under" to a cop. Last year a group of Eritreans all met up in a calagary park and rioted damaging public and private propery/vehicles. They brought machetes, 2x4s, baseball bats, crowbars, and beat the hell out of one another. In their home country of Eritrea there's two groups that absolutely hate one another and are at civil war, so many on both sides applied for refugees status and came to canada, once here they realized the other group they hate is also in canada and they brought their problems from their own country to canada. We've also got the whole Khalistani movement which is considered a terrorist group/organization in India hiding in Canada. This group even has a "khalistan commando force” which is a militant group which operates in Canada as well as many other countries. Nothing screams peaceful like a militant group. These people also had a gathering/protest in Richmond or Chilliwack or this general region where they were all gathered with guns ij the open and threatening people on the street and even talked publicly how they were basically going to become politicians and get jobs of authority and take over Canada. The list goes on yet we deport someone over an accident but keep all these other people and groups in our country? definitely not right

Should do Life in Jail first 25 years‼️‼️‼️

Deport

He has PTSD ? His son has medical issues ? What about his victims and their families ?

Why will this take 3 more years? I should have been an immigration lawyer. What a scam.

Isn’t is crazy drivers from India are driving erratic as if they were in overcrowded India

It would be great if the "news" actually sided with the victims of crimes, and not the perpetrators. What compassion should a man who killed 16 people get? He destroyed families and took away young lives, and you want him to stay for "compassionate grounds"? What kind of society are you creating when he is not in any way held accountable for his actions? He is serving less than a year for each life- that is not justice.

Yeah I don’t get this. Was he drinking?? There illegally?? Other than being a horrific accident I don’t see it as a deportation case

That wasn't an accident. He had no intention of stopping unless he was asleep

I feel for the driver. Pushed to do work he wasn’t properly trained for by his employer. Mr Sidhu doesn’t need to be deported. He has proven himself after since the tragity.

He apparently had 70 violations before running the stop sign and killing 16 boys.😮

Good. Get out.

As a long haul driver with 20 years experience, racism or no racism, only an East Indian truck owner would hire a new driver with a month’s experience to drive a B-Train. Both the driver and the owner were GROSSLY negligent, but the owner seems to have gotten away with it. He, too, should be deported along with his driving ‘culture’.

16 innocent life gone why deport him he should be in jail life time with no parol..

He should be jailed for 12 years and than deported

the guy had fake certificates for truck driving. he should be in jail for life.

Many of the families met with him in jail and made peace. Many of the affected families do not want him deported. He is a sincere man who owned up for his wrong doings. May he find some peace, along with each family affected.

Deport !!!!! Even for a red light !!!

Michael Green. I care nothing about your murdering client. He killed 16 people, destroyed the lives of multiple others and has been housed and fed by the Canadian tax payer since he blatantly disregarded a stop sign because he had no respect or care for our laws and our citizens. I know under our legal system murderers have a right to counsel, however defending such people and crying about his problems is vile to me.

Just send him home, he can drive over there, right ?

Canada lets psychopath killers roam free everyday that have intentionally killed people. Those killers are allowed to walk free among us and can legally change their name so nobody knows who they are or what they’ve done. This man made a mistake, many lives were lost , but, he has owned up to it, shown remorse and should not be deported. He didn’t use the insanity plea he choose to face it head on. He deserves to stay in Canada.

This guy f’d up in the worst way, but stood up to accept responsibility. He is the kind of person we should keep.

Finally a follow through on deterrence sentencing. This should send the appropriate message. Have to try after such a senseless, preventable and tragic collision. You can't drive like that in North America.

Global News is trying very hard to turn this deportation into re-casting a convicted criminal as an oppressed victim. Why? Sidhu was not and is not a Canadian citizen. Conviction = deportation. But put that question aside for a moment. Was Sidhu trained, licensed, experienced and knowledgeable about driving a heavy vehicle on a highway across the Prairies in winter conditions? If so, where did he get that training and experience? Did he have the qualifications for a Class 1 Operator's License? Did he have prior experience? If so, where, when, and how much? Global News doesn't focus on what caused the deaths of the Humboldt Broncos - why? Accounts at the time suggested that Sidhu was not qualified, but that by some process he got the job anyway. Will Global be following up on that? Up to now, Global has not asked those questions. Sidhu was convicted for actions resulting in the Humboldt Broncos tragedy. He is not a Canadian citizen and the rules are clear: his criminal conviction means he's being deported. Unlike Global News, the victims I see in this story are the families of the Humboldt Broncos team, and the team members themselves. Global News want to change criminal to innocent victim. Nothing could be further from the truth. He was given a fair trial, convicted and sentenced. Now he is being deported. If Global wish to play the 'reverse the story' game, perhaps they should refuse Canadian citizens' tax dollars as 'revenue'.

Deportation should be done without the tax payers money to be spent time in the prison. What does his lawyer talking about that he's going through PTSD? He did the crime, and the is sympathetic to the murderer, not the victims. The company which hired him, without any experience should shut down.

I don't agree with this decision, the order to deport. This man took responsibility from the beginning. It was an awful tragedy.

Had he not been in the country in the first place this wouldn't have happened. To add insult to injury he portrays himself as a victim. No doubt our pathetic government will bend over backwards due to political correctness and allow this murderer to stay.

The whole situation is very sad with plenty of blame to go around. If Sidhu had any honor he would leave voluntarily and take his family with him.

RU-vid just reminded me to never be a passenger in a vehicule with an Indian driver.

Send him packing ! Ffs