I'd like to go back to your exact question, which was about the criminal justice system. It's my understanding, from reading court of appeal jurisprudence from different provinces including Alberta and Quebec, that the courts are not seeing it that way, in terms of being able to present immigration arguments at the sentencing stage. I'm not the world's greatest expert on criminal law, but I don't believe it's settled that across Canada you can make immigration-related arguments when it comes to sentencing.
On November 7th, 2012. See this statement in context.