Canada gave Omar Ahmed Sayid Khadr roughly 10 million dollars (Canadian.)
Our illustrious leader said that it was cheaper to pay him CAN$10 million than to pay him CAN$30 million after a court trial.
Last I heard was that he was either IN nursing school or attempting to get into nursing school. In my province we not only have to have police checks done, there is something called the Vulnerable Sector Search(VSS). This is a specific criminal search that is based off of your birthdate. People can change their names, but you can change your birthdate. The VSS is required for any person in Ontario that does/will work with people within the Vulnerable Sector. Vulnerable populations are children, people undergoing general anesthesia, the aged, or any other person who may be vulnerable to abuse due to health, circumstance, age etc.
The VSS was instituted because there was a hockey coach who sexually abused many hockey players, one being Theron Fleury. IIRC this coach after abusing young boys was caught, charged and jailed. After release, he obtained a Pardon from the Canadian government and moved to Mexico and changed his name. After a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reporter traveled to Mexico and outed the guy on camera. After that, the guy with his new name, moved back to Canada and secured employment as a hockey coach.
The revelation that he received a Pardon was met with outrage. Changes were made to the Canadian Pardon system, you can no longer get a Pardon in Canada, it's called a Record Suspension. Record Suspensions for "Indictable Offenses(similar to the USA-Felony classification) and Summary Offenses(similar to the USA Misdemeanor classification) have waiting periods which begin AFTER your dept to society has been paid, not when the crime was committed. For Indictable convictions the waiting period is 10 years, for Summary convictions the waiting period is 5 years. Those time periods only begin after: all fines have been paid, all jail time is completed, all child support payments are up to date, all parole or probation is finished etc etc.
In 2017-18 there were 2,150 Indictable offence** and 2,279 Summary offence* applications
*Summary conviction offences are considered less serious than indictable offences because they are punishable by shorter prison sentences and smaller fines. The maximum penalty for a summary conviction offence is a sentence of six months of imprisonment, a fine of $5,000 or both.
**An indictable conviction offence is an offence which can only be tried on an indictment after a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is a prima facie case to answer.
So for every job I apply for, offers of employment are contingent upon clean police checks and clean Vulnerable Sector Search reports. The Police Check is easy, but if there is some child molester that has the same birth date as me, every time I have a VSS done, the VSS report says that there was indeed a "hit" and that I am required to PROVE that I am NOT the child molester that shares the same birthday as me, so I must report to a certain place in order to be finger printed. Once the fingerprint analysis proves that my fingerprints are NOT the same as the child molesters, a new report is written up thus clearing myself for working with the Vulnerable Sector of our population.
Until you get that secondary VSS clearance, potential future employer would probably see me as a 6'4" 240 pound pedo. I mean there's only 365 days in a year to share with 7 billion people. That's 19,178,082 (and carry the 3) or so potential weirdos of calendar year
Full circle back to Omar Khadar, he has some pretty hefty convictions, how the hell can he be a nurse in Canada??
In my province any criminal can apply to any college/university and be accepted. The rub occurs whenever that nursing student has to complete Clinical portion of the nurse(or any other healthcare professionals) training in a hospital, Long Term Healthcare Facility(retirement home/nursing home, etc. In order for ANY student to be allowed inside the facility for the purpose of clinical experience with actual human patients/clients/residents MUST have a clear Police Check and VSS check completed and on file. The schools dont care, the clinical sites DO.
They said "OK sir, do you have your police check?"
I said "But I dindu nuffin.'"
They said "I
believe you, but I still need the paperwork."
I just found this Wiki page about the child molester guy Graham James.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_James_(ice_hockey)#Pardonpeace
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