Canada

1. Do trucks with PR cause more accidents than citizens? Do you have a source for your accusation here, or are you just making it up?

2. I give a fuck. Why have immigrants at all if we aren't benefitting from them. We picked him ahead of others for a reason, who's to say the person we replace him with won't be worse?

It reminds me of something I learned. A good boss doesn't fire someone for making an accidental costly mistake, the damage is done, you may as well keep the person who has learned the lesson really well because they're less likely to do it again than a new person.

1. If they have a valid license, and they're not self-employed, then it's not exclusively their fault if they're not qualified. They should not bear the brunt of the liability. The whole damn system failed. I mean, the trucking company that hired the guy was only fined a few thousamd bucks, and the government didn't mandate any training, and nothing happened to them.

2. That is not the real question. But you do bring up a good one: Why is this country's population tending toward being more and more vindictive, rectionary assholes?

3. "Criminal" is a loaded word. A great many people commit acts that violate the criminal code on the regular, and nothing happens to them. Suggesting that anyone that gets singled out for having done so doesn't deserve to be in the country is an alarming position to take, and is not coming from a position of justice, but of malice.

But the industry is responsible for training these people, and they don’t provide enough.

And to add to that, it was my experience as a truck driver, that whenever something does go wrong, companies will do everything they can to place all blame on the driver.

Trucking should be unionized and made a red seal trade.

I do like the list of completely avoidable incidents that gets labelled as unavoidable here. Some y'all are telling on yourselves.

The guy didn't decide to "murder children". That's a gross bit of fairy tale weaving. Whatever the reason he didn't come to a stop at the stop sign - a thing many people do on the regular, and a thing that truckers in particular do all of the time, as they're often on a time crunch - or didn't notice the bus coming, none of them amount to murder.

Incompetence isn't intent, and the outcome doesn't define the crime.

It's telling that all of this anger and vitriol has lingered around the death of some hockey babie when the similarly tragic Bathurst Boys in Red collison resulted in no charges and relatively little public outcry. The lives of baskerball playing kids are worth a fraction of those of hockey playing ones in this country, it seems.