Hmm ... Canada, early 1970s, unlawful detention at gunpoint,
flight to Cuba, subsequent relocation to a country with a more
comfortable standard of living, after many years a trial back
in Canada with a chance for justice ...
all ending up in a negligible sentence
Could Canadians have seen this coming? Why yes, it all
happened to the FLQ kidnappers of James Cross. I don't know
if that answers your question TowerDog.
Critton's sentence is not especially lenient by Canadian
standards. The max sentence for Cross's kidnappers, who
were supposedly "permanently exiled", was 2 years.