Feds step in to stop Quebec man’s deportation 20 years after conviction
MONTREAL — The federal government is temporarily not proceeding with the deportation of a longtime Quebec resident who was ordered back to his native Italy based on a 20-year-old criminal conviction.
Michele Torre was at Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau airport awaiting an early evening flight when word of a ministerial reprieve came down late Friday, relayed to him by a Canada Border Services agent.
His daughter, Nellie Torre, said she received word that her father’s case would be reviewed from Liberal MP Angelo Iacono, her local member of Parliament.
The new came as a shock to Torre’s family, who had all but given up hope earlier Friday that they’d get a reprieve on humanitarian grounds.