Immigration and justice failures allow dangerous offenders to remain free in Canada

Two separate cases making headlines this week are raising the same question: why does Canada’s justice and immigration system keep failing to protect the public from people it already knows are dangerous?

In Windsor, Toronto Sun columnist Brad Hunter reported on Qasim Sabi, an Iraqi refugee living in Canada since 2013 who still has no deportation order despite a lengthy record. 

Windsor police say officers responded to a disturbance call on Bloomfield Road on Aug. 13 after an unidentified man approached two boys, aged eight and 10, who were playing in the area. Police allege the man attempted to kiss the 10-year-old, who fled, then kissed the eight-year-old on the cheek twice before the children ran home and told their parents.

The suspect was confronted by the boys’ parents before officers found him hiding in a nearby alley. Sabi already faces multiple ***ual ***ault charges, a robbery conviction, and repeated failures to comply with court conditions, yet remains in Canada under so-called “protected person” status — the same shield that has kept convicted *** offender Mahdi Johans in the country.

In Brampton, Peel Regional Police have arrested and charged five people, including two youths, over an April double homicide on elementary school grounds. On Friday, April 3, at approximately 10:21 p.m., officers responded to a shooting on the grounds of a school near Rutherford Road and Kennedy Road. An adult male with multiple gunshot wounds and a male youth with a gunshot wound were found nearby and died at the scene despite lifesaving efforts.

A 21-year-old and two 17-year-olds from Brampton are facing two charges each of first-degree murder. Mcaium Aarons, 25, of Toronto, faces conspiracy and probation-breach charges, while Jayden Christmah, 23, of Orangeville, is charged with firearm trafficking. 

On Tuesday’s Rebel News live stream, Sheila Gunn Reid and Lise Merle argued both stories point to the same failure: a system unwilling to remove or contain people who are already known to be dangerous, leaving ordinary Canadians — including children — to bear the consequences.