Quebec man facing deportation 20 years after crime gets two-year stay
LAVAL, Que. — The lawyer for a longtime Quebec resident facing deportation to his native Italy says Ottawa has granted his client a two-year stay.
Michele Torre had been given a new deportation order for Wednesday based on a 20-year-old criminal conviction.
The Immigration Department intervened in his favour today.
The now 64-year-old Torre was convicted in 1996 in a cocaine importation conspiracy linked to the Cotroni crime family and served part of a nearly nine-year prison sentence.