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Corey Hurren, a 46-year-old sausage-maker and military reservist, had faced 21 weapons charges and one of threatening the prime minister.
Corey Hurren appears at his sentencing hearing in Ottawa yesterday. (CBC News)
In delivering the sentence, Ontario Court Justice Robert Wadden said Hurren was given one year of credit for time spent in custody, meaning he still faces five years in prison.
The 5,000-strong force is made up of volunteers from remote northern and Indigenous communities who act the military’s eyes and ears in the sparsely populated northern and coastal areas of Canada.
Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) officials said Hurren held the rank of master corporal at the time of the incident.
Corey Hurren will have to wait a few weeks to hear his sentence for storming the gates of Rideau Hall with loaded firearms and multiple rounds of ammunition last summer.
OTTAWA Crown prosecutors are asking that a Manitoba man who rammed a gate at Rideau Hall before arming himself and heading on foot toward Prime Minister Justin Trudeau s home last summer be sentenced to six years in prison, minus time served. The request came during sentencing arguments on Tuesday in the case of Corey Hurren, the 46-year-old sausage-maker and Canadian Ranger who pleaded guilty this month to eight charges in relation to the incident at Rideau Hall last July. Crown prosecutor Meaghan Cunningham told an Ottawa courtroom that Hurren s actions were far from benign, and posed a serious threat to public safety while setting up a potentially dangerous situation.
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