Controversy Over Immigration and Crime
So Prime Minister Carney has specifically approved of
keeping a serial, violent, sexual assault
rapist in the country. He said, "Keep him here.
Don't send him out."
Butler emphasized his point by calling Yohannes a convicted violent sexual
offender.
Send him back to Eritrea where he came from.
He's not a citizen. He doesn't have and shouldn't have protected
status. And the Minister of Education of the
Liberal government
said, "No, we're not gonna send him back.
We don't care if he's raped people.
We don't care if he tried to burn down a church.
We don't care if he's not even a citizen." In my daily podcast I thought, you know,
there's gonna be one day I won't have to be talking about illegal
immigration into Canada. And, uh, today
within a one 24-hour news cycle, let me tell you about,
first of all, Michelle
Rempel Garner, member of Parliament, tabled an
item
suggesting, not even suggesting, stating outright that the Auditor
General said there are thousands of undocumented
illegal immigrants here in the country that should be deported.
Now people can say, "Oh, well, you know, that's just a political statement."
But on the same day, here's CBC of all
networks reporting and talking to the police chief in
Ottawa about the fact that so far this year in the City of
Ottawa, there's an increase of 150
rapes, 150 rapes. And the chief of
police in Ottawa saying she's very concerned about
this.
But the report goes on to say when people are caught and if they
are illegal immigrants, they are often, and maybe even
in most cases, not deported. And so on the same day, very
same day, Toronto Crime Watch reports a case
of a guy by the name of Medhanie Yohannes, if I
correctly pronounce that.
Sexual assault again, found guilty.
This is not the first time.
And his crime record goes back quite a ways, all the way back to
2017
when he tried to burn a church down in Toronto.
And now a string of violent sexual assaults.
And Canada's border agency, and I used to oversee
that as Minister of Public
Safety, is appealing to the government and saying,
"Please do not give this person
some kind of protected status, but send him back
to Eritrea where he came from. He's not a citizen.
He doesn't have and shouldn't have protected status."
High-risk offender Medhanie Yohannes will remain in custody for breaching a court
order to stay away from downtown Guelph.
A judge denied his bail late Friday afternoon after the 37-year-old
has been in and out of custody for years.
It's a case of history repeating itself.
Court heard that Yohannes has between 13 to 15 breaches of court
orders. The Crown filed a 200-page bail package on
him, which
the judge called lengthy and unusual.
Making matters more unusual is the fact that bail hearings are often
protected by publication bans, but neither side requested one at the
latest
hearing, so CTV News can share new details about
Yohannes'
history, which includes a steady criminal record
since 2018
after first arriving to Canada from Eritrea a year earlier.
During the hearing, Assistant Crown Attorney Robert Butler
peppered Yohannes with
questions and statements. Butler asked if there was something unclear about
what court has repeatedly told them about not going to certain places.
You've done about seven months of jail time on these breaches.
You have been found guilty of sexually assaulting women.
Last year, while being assessed by a medical doctor,
you told the doctor you would
sexually assault her if it weren't for the presence of other
men there.
Butler inquired why during a previous arrest Yohannes had his penis out in a
cell.
"Just to pee or to do something," Yohannes said through his interpreter.
The Crown went on to ask if Yohannes had any remorse for what he's
done to women
and whether he thinks he has the right to walk up to a woman and touch her.
"You're asking me a lot of questions," Yohannes responded, going on to say that
he pleaded guilty to those charges so he could go home.
Yohannes told court he has family that lives in Guelph,
but said on Friday if he
were released that day, he did not have anyone
that could act as his
supervisor. That's why Butler, on behalf of the Crown, argued
that Yohannes
must be detained because during previous medical assessments he was deemed
to be in the 99th percentile for re-offending and requires
the highest level of supervision.
Butler emphasized his point by calling Yohannes a convicted violent sexual
offender who does not abide by court orders even when he has one
in his back pocket.
And the Minister of Education of the Liberal government said, "No,
we're not gonna send him back. We don't care if he's raped people.
We don't care if he tried to burn down a church.
We don't care if he's not even a citizen.
No, we're not gonna send him back to the
country where he was
from." Minister of Immigration says, "I know how cabinet works"
And she would not say that, this minister would not have said
that without the
Prime Minister's specific approval.
So Prime Minister Carney has specifically approved of
keeping a serial, violent, sexual assault
rapist in the country. He said, "Keep him here.
Don't send him out." This is ridiculous, folks.
It needs to stop.
I've said before, and I'll say again,
that if the lawmakers of the land won't protect
the children of the land from the predators in the land,
then they don't really have the right to govern the land.
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