Ontario’s top court has drawn the line on when the immigration consequences of a sentence veer into unfit punishment in the case of a woman who struck a stranger in the head with a tossed table and two glass bottles.
It dismissed the Mississauga, Ont., woman’s claim that the judge, who sentenced her to a year in jail for the “gratuitous” attack that left her female victim with permanent and disfiguring injuries, failed to properly consider adverse immigration consequences.
