The lawyer for the former truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash hopes he will get a chance to argue against his clientB次元官网网址檚 possible deportation before the Federal Court of Canada.

The Canada Border Services Agency recommended in March that Jaskirat Singh Sidhu be handed over to the Immigration and Refugee Board to decide if he should be deported back to India.

SidhuB次元官网网址檚 lawyer, Michael Greene, has already filed an argument with the Federal Court and expects written arguments from the Department of Justice by the end of the month. He said he will then have a chance to respond by July 22, when it will be placed in the hands of a Federal Court judge.

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In March 2019, Sidhu was sentenced to eight years after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing death and bodily harm in the April 6, 2018, collision that killed 16 people and injured 13.

Court was told that the rookie Calgary trucker, a newly married permanent resident, went through a stop sign at a rural Saskatchewan intersection and drove into the path of the Humboldt Broncos bus carrying players and staff to a junior hockey league playoff game.

Greene said he believes the system is flawed. He said one CBSA officer reviewed the evidence and made a recommendation to deport Sidhu, which was approved by a superior.

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Greene said if there was a chance Sidhu would reoffend and put the public at risk, the decision would make sense. But he says thatB次元官网网址檚 not the case.

The Canada Border Services Agency declined to comment on SidhuB次元官网网址檚 case.

But a spokeswoman said in a statement that there are multiple steps built into the process to ensure procedural fairness and the agency would only act on a removal order once all legal avenues of recourse have been exhausted.

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Greene said he is cautiously optimistic he will get to argue the case in open court, but he said the way the system is set up, it could all end up back at square one.

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B次元官网网址擝ill Graveland, The Canadian Press