On a train early one morning in the summer of 2022, a Calgary man on his way to work was the victim of a random and utterly unprovoked attack by a fellow passenger who attempted to slash his throat. The man survived, his doctors saying he was but one tenth of an inch away from death. His attacker was an Indigenous male.
His ethnicity has apparently spared the perpetrator of this vicious assault any federal prison time whatsoever. Sentenced to 2 years minus time served in a provincial detention center, he will be out and about sometime in 2024. Explaining the leniency of his decision, the judge presiding at his trial explained: “The history of colonialism has to be taken into account.”
One who randomly attempts to slash the throat of a stranger is clearly a psychopath. For a judge to invoke the history of colonialism in sentencing such an individual says he too dwells in the land of Dementia. Should our slasher kill someone upon his release, I would suggest the judge responsible for his sentence also be charged with murder. Perhaps if the repercussions of their misplaced “compassion” should come back to haunt them, those eager to exonerate any member of an “oppressed” minority will reconsider the utter superficiality of their approach to the problem of Human Evil!