PREEM SHOOTS FROM LIP
Experts might sneer but public will agree with Ford on home invasion
Premier Doug Ford says a homeowner in Vaughan should have shot the men who invaded his home a few more times.
Ford was reacting to the latest home invasion story in the GTA during a news conference last Wednesday.
Ford went far beyond what most politicians would say in endorsing the homeowner, a legal and licensed gun owner who fired and hit one of the men.
“Congratulations. Yeah, I’m glad you shot the guy,” Ford said. “Congratulations for shooting this guy. Should have shot him a couple more times, as far as I’m concerned.”
When the courts refuse to protect citizens, citizens are forced to protect themselves. And the premier – whose home was targeted by carjackers last spring – hasn’t shied away from supporting victims of crime who made headlines for fighting back.
Critics of Ford will say that kind of language is inappropriate for an elected official, that it could jeopardize the case when it gets to court. An awful lot of Canadians, though, will be nodding along in agreement with what the premier said, especially when they find out more about the perp.
Just around the time Ford was making his comments, York Reginal Police released more info about the man they were charging in this home invasion.
Trestin Cassanova-Alman is well known to police for his arrest in July 2020 for a carjacking. In that instance, an 8 year old girl was in the truck when the carjacking occurred. So Cassanova-Alman threw her out of truck near Burnhamthorpe Rd. and Confederation Pkwy.
He was out on bail on drug charges at the time of that violent crime.
Last December, York Reginal Police announced they had busted a violent criminal organization responsible for home invasions across Ontario and Quebec. Project Wrangler, as it was called, was a joint task force operation that dismantled an allegedly violent criminal group.
That year-long investigation led to 13 arrests on 150 charges – and at least half of the accused were on some form of custodial release at the time of their arrests.
Cassanova-Alman wasn’t arrested as part of that bust, but was named by police as wanted for conspiracy to commit murder, robbery and a number of other offences.
This guy is one bad dude.
After he was shot in the early hours of March 17th in the botched home invasion, police were able to pick him up after he went to a local hospital to seek treatment.
In addition to facing charges of armed robbery and wearing a disguise, Cassanova-Alman is also facing charges for breaching his probation order.
Yes, I know you’re shocked.
When he allegedly committed this home invasion and when police named him for all those other charges back in December, he was out on probation.
In fact he has eight breach-of-probation offences awaiting him.
“You know, they always want to protect the bad guys,” Ford said. “The judges always want to protect the Charter of Rights. How about the Charter of Rights of the people to keep them safe rather than always protecting these criminals? I’m just sick and tired of it.”
He encouraged the federal government to get moving on the bail reform.
The Carney government promised to toughen Canada’s weak bail laws last spring shortly after the election.
They introduced the legislation in October, but it didn’t pass the House until a month ago and is now working its way through the Senate.
Ford said that when it comes to crime, the Carney Liberals are focused on the wrong target.
“And by the way, the federal government is spending so much time on going after legal, law abiding gun owners that safely store their guns safely store their ammunition, they’re hunters or they’re sport shooters.” Ford said.
“I have an idea, rather than wasting hundreds of millions of dollars going after legal gun owners, why don’t you spend that … hundreds of millions of dollars going after the bad guys?”
The premier said he believes “ruthless” criminals should “rot in jail for the rest of their lives.
We have some great judges, but we have some really weak-kneed judges letting these criminals out on bail, not once, not twice, four or five times,” he said
The remarkable thing in this instance is that York Regional Police didn’t charge the home owner, as has happened in far too many cases. The YRP should be commended for properly applying the criminal code, which allows the use of force to defend yourself or your home in cases like this.
The scary part in how often there are cases like this in Toronto and vicinity these days.
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