On November 30 or December 1, 2020, career criminal Jacques Roy got into an argument with someone, shot them in the leg and then fled the scene. At the time of this shooting, Jacques Roy was under a Firearms Prohibition Order, the result of previous violent crimes.
Police charged Jacques Roy with:
- Possession of a firearm or weapon contrary to prohibition order (2 counts)
- Uttering threats;
- Aggravated assault;
- Unauthorized possession of a firearm;
- Using a firearm while committing an offence;
and a host of other weapons, drug-trafficking and breach of probation offences.
Police issued a warning that Jacques Roy should be considered armed and dangerous while they searched for him.
On January 1, 2021, police arrested Jacques Roy and he was apparently held on the criminal charges listed above.
At some point between January 1, 2021, and September 9, 2021, Jacques Roy was released from jail – presumably on bail pending trial for breaching his last Firearms Prohibition Order and other offences.
On September 9, 2021, news outlets report Jacques Roy was arrested again and charged with three counts of possession of a firearm or weapon contrary to a prohibition order, possession of a prohibited weapon, possession of a controlled substance, possession of break-in tools, two counts of possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose and four counts of breach of probation.
On these latest charges, he was supposed to appear on court on October 18, 2021. I say “supposed to” because there is no record of his trial or, I would hope, his conviction for multiple breaches of multiple Firearms Prohibition Orders on CanLII.org, the Canadian Legal Information Institute’s database of court records.
What I do know is this.
On March 14, 2022, Jacques Roy was arrested again and charged with four more counts of Possession of a Firearm and/or Ammunition Contrary to a Prohibition Order and a host of other weapons and violence-related offences.
Here’s what baffles me and, I hope, baffles you.
After repeated arrests for drug trafficking, violence and breaching numerous Firearm prohibition Orders, why was Jacques Roy not in jail?
Why won’t our our judicial system protect society from proven threats to public safety, like Jacques Roy?
Clearly a piece of paper issued by a judge (a Firearm Prohibition Order) won’t stop young Mr. Roy from getting his filthy mitts on illegal guns, ammunition and drugs.
Jacques Roy knows the same thing I do about our so-called justice system, specifically as it relates to Firearm Prohibition Orders.
A Firearm Prohibition Order is just a useless piece of paper.
No matter how many times they violate their many Firearm Prohibition Orders, the next judge will do the same thing as the last judge – release them from jail, again, so they can commit more crimes. Again.
The System is Broken
People with a history of violent offences are a proven danger to public safety, yet these are the people our government refuses to check on or track.
- No police agency in Canada tracks individuals with Firearm Prohibition Orders registered against them.
- There is no legal requirement for police to track individuals with Firearm Prohibition Orders registered against them or routinely check on them to ensure compliance.
- There is no legal requirement for individuals with Firearm Prohibition Orders to notify police when they move to a new residence. Police have no idea where these people are.
As you will see if you study any of the cases on my media tracking page for Firearm Prohibition Order Violators, the only way these offenders are discovered is when police arrest them for some other crime. Only after their arrest on other charges do police realize the offender is the subject of a Firearms Prohibition Order.
If you feel so inclined…
Please contact Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino and encourage him to fix our broken Firearm Prohibition Order system so repeat violent offenders like Teneal Richards are not given a free pass to offend again.
Send your letter, postage-free, to:
Minister Marco Mendicino
511 Lawrence Avenue West
Toronto, Ontario M6A 1A3
Telephone: 416-781-5583
Fax: 416-781-5586
Email: marco.mendicino@parl.gc.ca
It seems with almost every arrest for a firearm offense, there is a charge of breach of undertaking. This turnstile justice system introduced in Trudeau’s first term with his criminal reforms in Bill C-75 provided for instant and automatic bail for violent repeat offenders, and changed 118 criminal offenses to “hybrid” Summary offenses which attract ZERO jail time. Amoung those offenses affected are a myriad of firearm offenses included armed robbery, and GUN SMUGGLING.
I suggest that if you want to point the finger of blame at Canada’s increasingly violent gang community, then you point not just at the judges, but at Justin Trudeau’s weak government as being primarily responsible. Their virtue signaling about attacking the scrupulously law abiding in the interest of “keeping Canadians safe” is actually getting at-risk youth killed.
Well said, Rob. Yes, part of my plan is calling out Minister Marco Mendicino every time another criminal is re-arrested – typically for dealing illegal drugs – and additionally they’re also charged with violating an existing Firearm Prohibition Order or three. That’s an ongoing social media campaign, as is my writing about this issue to get us ordinary folks to understand the issue and get involved.
As you state so well, this government doesn’t concern itself with public safety. It concerns itself entirely with useless virtue signalling to their voters.
One thing that makes me sick is the stunning silence from Wendy Cukier, her Coalition for Gun Control, Nathalie Provost and PolySeSouvient, and every other gun-hating organization on the issue of Firearm Prohibition Orders – specifically the utter failure for these pieces of paper to keep illegal guns out of the hands of career criminals.
Even after the murder of Darian Henderson-Bellman [allegedly] by her ex-boyfriend who violated at least 5 restraining orders and 3 Firearm Prohibition Orders the day he [allegedly] shot her 5 times – not one of these individuals or groups would address this issue.
That proves, sadly, they don’t give a rat’s ass about public safety. They only care about taking guns away from licensed firearm owners. Just like our Liberal overlords.
So I’ll continue this mission until we Canadians wake up enough to elect a government that will do something, anything, beyond vacuous virtue-signalling. I’m sure Dennis R. Young would haunt me of I did anything different. LOL This was one of his issues as well.
to Rob and Christopher… well said,
It might be of value if this story and these two comments here were copy/pasted and sent to each serving NDP/Liberal MPs [ and BC’s provincial NDP MLAs].
Your comments state the problem very well.
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I am also stymied by the lack of public responses from the conservative party about current issues, the aforementioned is one of them. Their inability to think out-the box and silences concern me.
Another, they are having a leadership process, cost for each hopeful is 200,000 clams. That’s a lot, cumulatively that’s over 1 million, I sent a suggestion the other day to many sitting conservatives …” that publicly they can announce the moneys from this leadership entry fee be sent directly towards the Ukrainian Humanitarian Efforts and when Conservatives become the next Cdn Government that they totally scrap the 5-Billion dollar Gun Mandates and invest that money in purchasing Super Hornets, Missiles, and beefing up our northern and coastal defenses.
That money can buy a lot of ordnance, make us strong, Russia is a ruthless threat as we are witnessing.”… child killers,… is Wendy or Nathalie et al ponying up any of their organization’s reserves for this? I doubt it. They want us to be weak. We are weak as a nation.
This lack of protection for the average citizen is the mark of a failed society period. Pedophiles receive bail quicker than truckers that honk horns too much. I never hike or walk our streets without bear spray and six inches of steel on my belt simply because I refuse to be a victim of our left wing pathetic system.
You be careful SkidRowe. You get caught with a pig sticker on your belt and you’ll be in jail quicker than a drug dealer shooting up TO streets with an AK-47! Difference is the drug dealer will be out next day and you will rot in the slammer.