HUNTER: Why is accused Toronto cop attacker still in Canada?

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Joao Pedro Da Silva Cordeiro appears to have fully embraced the Canadian way of doing business.

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After all, even if you’ve been ordered out of the country, why should things like bail conditions and imminent deportation bring down the party?

No, you live your best life.

Cops say the 30-year-old was busted on Aug. 16 when officers responded to a break-and-enter in progress in the Caledonia and Rogers Rds. area They were joined by two sheriffs who were trying to evict Cordeiro.

Lo and behold: Cordeiro was wanted on a bench warrant for failing to attend court on charges from May 2024. Theft under, assault resist arrest, assault with a weapon, two counts of assaulting a police officer … and from the greatest hits package, failure to comply with a release order.

When officers tried to put the bracelets on Cordeiro, he allegedly freaked, injuring three cops. More assault charges, intent to resist arrest, failure to attend court, etc.

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According to the Toronto Police Association, “the man is also a CBSA (Canada Border Service Agency) overstay and is currently in the ‘open removal’ process

“On behalf of our members, and the public, we are asking all levels of government to stop pointing fingers and explain why this man was still in Canada and why he was not in custody,” the TPA pleaded.

Excellent questions but the truth is that TPA president Jon Reid might be better off smashing his head against the wall. Those questions are up against a fortress of wokeness and diaspora politics.

Toss in a woker-than-thou judiciary that agonizes over anyone getting the boot from Canada and you have a disaster.

Earlier this year, Calgary Judge Anne Brown fretted at the plight of poor Rajbir Singh, 25, accused of groping a woman’s genitals at a Cowtown watering hole. Then he did it again.

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The “international student” was found guilty of sexual assault but Social Justice Brown agonized that a conviction could get Singh deported.

Without an appeal! Brown tossed in a discharge, so there would be no permanent criminal record when it came time for said appeal.

In 2011, the Conservative government of the day launched the CBSA’s Most Wanted list. It was aimed at shaking the tree for some of the 300 foreign criminals (as of 2023) here illegally.

And the program worked. Scores of killers, dope dealers, perverts, terrorists and war criminals were given the heave-ho.

But something happened sometime after, say, 2015. In 2023, the CBSA told the Globe and Mail they were phasing out the most wanted list because, uh … it hadn’t been updated since 2018.

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Is the government critically short of comms people?

And after 2015 there were no new undesirables. Right?

Suspected terrorists? No. Way.

On June 18, 2023, Sikh Canadian activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar (who probably should not have been here either) was gunned down in the parking lot of a Surrey, B.C. temple.

Cops say one of his alleged killers is Amandeep “Mr. Temporary Visa” Singh. He had a warrant for fleeing cops and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle in B.C. In Brampton, there were firearm and drug charges (on bail at the time!)

He promised a B.C. judge he would be good. Two days later Nijjar was in the morgue.

As the TPA said: “Explain why this man was still in Canada and why he was not in custody.”

Indeed.

bhunter@postmedia.com

@HunterTOSun

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