The Tragic Tale of the Humboldt Broncos

The Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team were bound for a playoff game in Nipawin, Saskatchewan on April 6, 2018. The team rode their bus alongside coaches and other staff. With their hockey bags and equipment stowed in the cargo hold, their bus drove down one of Saskatchewan’s flat, rural highways on a clear sunny spring day.

They were unprepared for what followed: an unqualified, newly arrived foreign immigrant truck driver, Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, crashed into them in a violent collision that saw cargo and steel flung across the roadway. The two wrecked vehicles came to a stop amid the snow and debris. The Broncos’ bus had been torn open and lay on its side; the potash bundles the transport truck was carrying were strewn across the snowy landscape.

It was a horrific, deadly accident that should never have happened, one of the worst traffic accidents in the country’s history. It was a direct result of Canada’s open-door immigration chaos and the widespread illegality of newly arrived immigrants getting behind the wheel of vehicles they had no business driving.

News of the deadly collision that killed 16 people and injured 13 others reverberated throughout the hockey world, especially in Canada, but also across North America and Europe. At the time, people everywhere placed hockey sticks on their front porches in remembrance of the victims, these young white men and their colleagues who were taken too soon. Those that survived had grievous injuries both physical and mental that they still bear to this day. If strict immigration policy had been in place at the time along with strict oversight on the employment of unqualified truck drivers, this tragedy never would have happened.

The story has resurfaced recently as the driver who caused the horrific accident, Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, is weeks away from being deported. Canada’s glacially slow deportation process is as viscous as it is lenient: it takes a monumental tragedy to deport anyone, and even at that it can take years for the deportation to be carried out, if at all. In this driver’s case, he is on the verge of being kicked out once and for all, but the ultra-Left mainstream media and hand-wringing politicians are hoping to prevent him from being permanently exiled. Although he should have been on a slow boat to India long ago, he remains in the country. Unfortunately, stories of immigrant drivers wrecking havoc on roadways across the Western world abound these days as more people are killed by reckless foreign drivers who continue to run amok on the roadways of the increasingly embattled Western world.

Victim Impact Statements

Several victims, family members, and friends of the Broncos gave victim impact statements during  Jaskirat Singh Sidhu’s sentencing trial. Here are some of those testaments:

Marilyn Hay, mother of Tyler Bieber (29, play-by-play announcer): “My last message from Tyler was at 3 p.m. April 6 to say he was on the bus . . . The last, ‘I love you mom. Have a great day’ came three days earlier on my birthday, April 3. My birthday will never be the same.”

Toby Boulet, father of Logan Boulet (21, defenceman): “I need to tell Mr. Sidhu that I do not believe that he got out of bed on the morning of April 6, 2018, to cause a crash that would ultimately kill our only son Logan . . . I believe that he feels tremendous remorse and wishes with all the fibres of his being that this tragedy would never have happened.”

Carol Brons, mother of Dayna Brons (24, athletic therapist): “We had to plan a private funeral in our small parish church before the public service. This private funeral of 400-plus people was the church that we thought we would be celebrating Dayna’s wedding. Where we thought we would be walking her down the aisle to greet her happy, loving groom. Yes, we did walk her down the aisle, but we weren’t escorting a bride. We were escorting a casket.”

Christina Haugan, wife of head coach Darcy Haugan (42): “I want to tell you that I forgive you. There are days while the unjustness and sadness are definitely still there, but I have been forgiven for things when I didn’t deserve it, so I will do the same.”

Andrea Joseph, mother of Jaxon Joseph (21, centre): “You hurt my baby. You broke him, and for this I will never forgive you. You don’t deserve my forgiveness.”

Russ Herold, father of Adam Herold (16, defenceman): “We will never know did we lose a great farmer, an NHL hockey player, a lawyer, a doctor, a future premier, maybe the prime minister of our great country? But I know I lost a piece of my soul, and my heart, my love, my son.”

Allan Wack, father of Stephen Wack (defenceman): “Stephen was an incredible big brother to his one sibling Justin. . .When Stephen’s brother Justin was born, our family quickly learned that Justin was totally blind. During a family vacation to California when Stephen was three years old, he was riding in the back seat of the vehicle. The silence was broken when, after what turned out to be some quiet contemplation, Stephen piped up and said: ‘I would like to give Justin my eyes so he can see.’”

After pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing death and dangerous driving causing bodily harm, Jaskirat Singh Sidhu was sentenced to eight years in prison in March 2019.

Mass Immigration Continues

The Liberal Party of Canada shattered Canada’s once functional immigration system. Under the Harper federal ministry, Canadian immigration was re-geared to the national interest, a departure from previous Liberal administrations that had opened Canada’s floodgates. The Liberal party under Justin Trudeau’s inexperienced leadership shattered that merit-based system as they decided to open the floodgates in several different waves. Merit was out and mass was in. The liberals have been notorious for engaging in the mass importation of foreign voters to change the electoral map in a self-serving, cynical way. Not only have they changed the electoral map, but they have radically altered Canada’s demographics.

Tragedies like the Humboldt Broncos bus crash did nothing to stop the immigration deluge. The number of foreign-born workers, including the most pertinent category for the purposes of this article, truckers, has increased exponentially in the last decade. Ill-trained and fraudulently credentialed drivers from countries like India have caused numerous fatalities on North America’s roads. The Humboldt Broncos were victims of this completely irresponsible open border scheme. The victims were all white. Mass replacement migration is the issue of our time, and it is killing our people.

Humboldt Broncos Victims

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