What kind of a country are we?
Another day, another example of how our ‘justice-system’ remains pathetically weak and fundamentally unjust.
In August 2017, the remains of 19-year-old Bhavkiran Dhesi were found in a vehicle in Surrey B.C.
Her boyfriend – Harjot Singh Deo – was charged with killing her and attempting to burn her body.
Deo pleaded guilty, and was convicted of manslaughter and indignity to human remains.
Yet, the punishment falls far short of what most people would expect.
Deo will serve 5 years in prison, at most.
The punishment for the manslaughter conviction is 5 years, and the punishment for indignity to human will be applied at the same time.
Deo spent some time in jail before being granted bail in October of 2019, which could also reduce his sentence.
Simply put, this is an absolute disgrace.
What kind of a country are we?
How can the punishment for such horrific acts be so minor?
It’s not just this case.
The Supreme Court of Canada has previously ruled that life in prison without the possibility of parole is ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ even for mass murderers.
And even when people are locked up, the system just lets them back out again.
Myles Sanderson had over 50 prior criminal convictions, yet was granted parole as the parole board said he wasn’t a risk to the public.
In September of 2022, he went on to stab 11 people to death in Saskatchewan.
We have a system that views it as ‘cruel’ to keep dangerous people locked up, yet somehow doesn’t see the cruelty that kind of weakness imposes on innocent Canadians who end up paying the price.
You can’t base a justice system on ‘compassion’ alone
One thing we increasingly see in society is a repression of basic human instincts.
Everything normal and natural in the way humans think and interact is being demonized and restricted, while abnormality is held up and praised.
This is the kind of thinking that now afflicts our justice system.
The natural human instinct is to harshly punish those who commit horrendous acts.
That instinct is correct, and we should follow it much more than we do.
There is a reason those instincts built up over such a long period of time, and they obviously have significant benefit and utility.
A society that effectively punished horrific violent acts sends two messages: Those who hurt the innocent will be punished, and our society values life enough to punish those who take it.
A society that fails to punish horrific violent acts also sends two messages: We don’t value life and we don’t value the innocent.
Obviously, Canada is currently the latter kind of country.
The pathetic weakness of our justice system isn’t merely an affront to our instincts and our sense of justice, it is also dangerous.
We are seeing more and more that you can’t build a justice system on ‘compassion’ alone. Old-fashioned harsh punishment must also play a role, and it’s long past time Canada got back to that.
Spencer Fernando
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