This month, she witnessed one of the men implicated in her sister‘s death being sent home to India.

She told the media at the Vancouver airport: “I feel better because the system works.”

Rivet is wrong.

The system did not work. It took revenge.

The case of Bahadur Singh Bhalru has nothing to do with justice and everything to do with retribution.

It also stinks of racism and underscores what many Canadians already believe — that our judges live in a planet of their own.

Bhalru and his buddy Sukhvir Singh Khosa got two-year conditional or non-custodial sentences for their reckless street race in Vancouver that ended up killing Thorpe. Khosa is also facing deportation.

The judge did not even bother to put these two speed nuts in jail for their crime.

The public got outraged on seeing Bhalru and Khosa walk out of court, after the judge felt that they did not have to serve a minute of the possible maximum of 10 years in prison they were facing.

What happened next is more disgusting.

Politics got into play forcing Immigration Canada to step in and fix the injustice.

The cry for revenge, lead by Thorpe‘s family, culminated in Bhalru‘s deportation.

Suddenly Immigration Canada is on everybody‘s mind as the executioner for a eunuch of a justice system.

This case does not only set a dangerous precedent, it opens up a wide range of questions.

If you had become a Canadian citizen by taking an oath to uphold the laws of the land and then violate them, are you not in breach of that oath and subject to deportation?

Is Immigration Canada working with Corrections Canada to go through the files of all convicts to see who needs to be deported?

Why did an immigration tribunal let West Vancouver‘s Ali Arimi, a landed immigrant, who was also found criminally responsible for a road race that killed a friend, stay in Canada? Arimi, called an evasive liar by the judge, walked out of the courthouse door like Khosa and Bhalru.

Bhalru‘s deportation does not answer the failures of our justice system. What Bhalru‘s deportation has done is reinforce the fear that Canada‘s judges are not equipped to dispense justice.

He would be a free man today if he had taken Canadian citizenship.