A former government employee has been sentenced for her role in one of Canada's most serious cases of passport theft.Toula Blanas, 27, was sentenced on Friday to 5� years for dealing with blank Canadian passports, and two years, to be served concurrently, for breach of trust.
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Ms. Blanas, who worked in the passport office in Scarborough, was accused of stealing 246 blank passports, which were being sold on Toronto streets for the bargain price of about $1,000 apiece.
Now, let's see.... 5 1/2 years, with a release at around the one third point of time served... around 20 months.
So... about $12,300 a month, take home.
Nice to know the passport office has become so wonderfully multicultural.
Do we get a photograph of her: nope. Will she serve her entire sentence" Nope. Will a legal aid lawyer now ask for a re-trial, at taxpayer's expense: Yup. Will we ever see the bill for the lawyer's services: Nope!
Actually it is better than getting $12K a month, since during her months in the crowbar hotel, she doesn't have any living expenses since we are so thoughtfully paying for her cable TV, steak dinners, extreme makeover spa days, etc etc etc. Then when her 20 months are up, she starts fresh with a quarter mil. I bet a few of the boys in the Navy (who live in mess decks that the John Howard society would consider cruel and inhumane if they were criminals instead of sailors) would like a deal like that.
No income tax to pay; just like G-G Clarkson.
BTW, what is G-G's yearly salary? How many years has G-G served? Go figure....
And of course there's the matter of the some 250 people who received passports for God knows what purpose.
"And of course there's the matter of the some 250 people who received passports for God knows what purpose."
On that basis alone and in the interest of the "War on Terror," Blanas should have received a MINIMUM of 20 years.
Such a sentence would also serve, as Voltaire once remarked about the hanging of a British admiral, to "encourager les autres."
When she gets out she can file a complaint with the union. They will go to bat for her to get her job back, complete with backpay