Absolutely. We all expect people to be law-abiding and there are consequences for breaking the law.
One of the things that is sometimes lost in this discussion is that even though there may not be an immigration appeal for some of these individuals if they are convicted of a penalty of more than six months in jail or more than six months of incarceration, they have the ability to say, “Look. I could be deported. I don't have an appeal. Please take that into account when you sentence me.” The courts of appeal in Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia, the Northwest Territories, and other jurisdictions have said that this is a consideration. There have been many cases, the case of Arganda in Manitoba, more recently, where the courts of appeal have actually reduced the sentence to preserve a right of appeal.
The immigrant who commits the crime, the convicted criminal, has the ability to argue at their sentence when a criminal judge, a Court of Queen's Bench judge, can take into account the victim impact statement, can take into account the issues of all the things they should be taking into account in sentencing, and also the particular circumstances of the individual. When you take into account all of those things, that is essentially what the immigration appeal does. It's not that we're taking away the rights to state what a circumstance of the individual criminal is. They can do that and the courts of appeal will recognize that.