Indian-born Jaskirat Singh Sidhu was the person behind the 2018 Humboldt Broncos bus crash, which killed 16 players and staff of the Saskatchewan junior hockey team and injured 13 others. He may soon be deported back to India as all his legal options to stay in Canada have been exhausted. In an exclusive interview with CBC, Sidhu said he wants to fight for his family as he will be deported back to India, but not for his wife and children. Sidhu had married Tanveer Mann, a nurse, in Canada a few months before the 2018 accident. They are now parents of a three-year-old son and three-month-old daughter. The son was born with a rare lung disease and as CBC reports, doctors told the couple that exposure to India’s poor air quality could put him at risk. “Nobody wants to be separated from their family, you know?” Sidhu said. Sidhu’s wife said, “I want my husband with me. I want the father of my children to be with us, so that he can contribute. He can see his children grow in all those little moments.” Sidhu’s immigration lawyer Michael Green filed an application for Sidhu to remain in Canada on humanitarian and compassionate grounds, as he has young children who would be affected if Sidhu were deported.While CBC ran an exclusive interview with Sidhu and his family, the National Post ran an opinion piece in which the writers argued that Sidhu “paid his debt to society” and therefore should not be deported. One of the authors is John Manley, a former deputy PM of Canada. “At worst, this was a case of appalling negligence. This was not an act of deliberate violence. The court behaved accordingly, handing down a sentence that reflects the scale of the harm caused and the absence of intent. “Given the driver’s extreme remorse and his willingness to face the court’s sentence, it is time for his sentence to end and treatment to begin,” the article said. A Canadian journalist condemned the media campaign against Sidhu’s proposed deportation, writing, “Jaskirat Singh Sidhu committed 70 safety violations in 11 days, which led to his dangerous driving. He killed 16 people and seriously injured 13 others in the Humboldt Massacre. He wasn’t even legally allowed to drive. More toxic sympathy from the legacy media.” Sidhu pleaded guilty to the accident and served four years in prison. He is on full parole from 2023. On April 6, 2018, a double-trailer semi-truck driven by Jaskirat Singh Sidhu ran a stop sign at a rural intersection in Saskatchewan, Canada and collided with a bus carrying Humboldt Broncos players and staff, injuring 13 and killing 16, most of whom were teenagers, including Chris Joseph’s son, Jackson.After pleading guilty and spending nearly four years in jail, Sidhu is on full parole from 2023. However, he continues to be in the headlines and is fighting tooth and nail to not be sent back to India.One of the victims of the accident was hockey player Jazon Joseph. In an interview with Media Bezirgan, his father Chris Judesff said that Sidhu is not the remorseful person the media portrays him to be, but rather a “selfish” person. “Everyone has told him he should be deported — judges, the CBSA, the Immigration and Refugee Board, the federal Court of Appeals — and he’s still trying, because he’s taking care of himself and he doesn’t really care about anyone else,” Joseph said.