A gavel in a file photo. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
A federal court judge has deferred deportation for a Lebanese drug dealer due to the convict having a “suspicious lung lesion” that could be a tumour.
Justice Angus Grant said in his Feb. 11 decision that despite past convictions for possessing fentanyl and hydromorphone for the purpose of trafficking, Lebanese citizen and Canadian permanent resident Mohamad Kassar’s deportation will be stayed in order to ensure essential medical treatment is not interrupted.
