R. v. Habib, 2024 ONCA 830
[18] There is no dispute that the appellant committed grave offences that endangered public safety and required a significant prison sentence. He carried a loaded prohibited firearm as a tool of the drug trade, which by itself normally attracts a prison sentence, in the penitentiary range. See R. v. Smith, 2023 ONCA 620, at paras. 5-7. And by impulsively using that firearm to cause the employee to flee in fear, he endangered the lives of both that employee and the three bystanders, while creating the risk of escalating violence, and also causing grave psychological harm to the employee and a risk of that same harm to the bystanders. See R. v. Hilbach, 2023 SCC 3, 477 D.L.R. (4th) 84, at paras. 53-54. These aggravating features attract higher sentences. See R. v. Samaniego, 2020 ONCA 439, 151 O.R. (3d) 449, at paras. 53-54, aff’d on other grounds, 2022 SCC 9, 466 D.L.R. (5th) 581; Smith, at paras. 1-2 and 13. For all these reasons, and consistent with this court’s jurisprudence, the sentencing judge rightly emphasized the need to denounce the appellant’s actions and deter others from doing the same.
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