Leniency for crack dealer because of his nine children, race
[The following story shows that it’s no longer hidden, Canada’s woke anti-White courts give Indians and Blacks automatic discounts in sentencing merely for being Indian or Black. There’s no pretence of equality.]
CHRIS LAMBIE
3 Feb 2026
A Toronto crack cocaine dealer caught back in business three times over the course of 10 months managed to convince a judge that he deserves some leniency because putting him behind bars would mean hardship for his nine children, but not because he’s addicted to the drugs he was caught peddling.
Lloyd Williams pleaded guilty in Ontario’s Court of Justice to three counts of possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking in what Justice André Chamberlain described as the “deeply troubled” neighbourhood surrounding the intersection at Dundas and Sherbourne streets for arrests on March 3, 2024, Oct. 25, 2024, and Jan. 4, 2025.
Williams, who was released after each arrest — twice on bail and a third time on the promise he wear a GPS tracking device — also pleaded guilty to one count of possession of proceeds of crime over $5,000, and two counts for under that amount, and failing to comply with a release order on Feb. 15, 2025. [This miscreant and professional criminal and hyper-sexed breeder easily got bail at least three times for dealing in drugs. Canadian political prisoner Les Bory was kept in detention and refused bail merely for expressing his ideas on a podcast. Do evil things, especially if you’re a privileged minority and the system bends over backwards for you. Express “evil” ideas, especially if you’re White and the system hits you harshly.]
The Crown recommended a six-and-a-half-year prison sentence. Williams’ lawyer argued for two years less a day in jail.
“Lloyd Williams has nine children in total: two stepchildren and seven biological,” Chamberlain wrote in a recent decision. “The youngest is just 10 months old.” One is 22 months old, and another is three, said the judge.
Williams also has nine year-old twins, two 10-year olds and a 16-year-old. One of his nine-year-olds is on the autism spectrum, Chamberlain said.
“He states that he provides support as a father to his children and that any lengthy absence would have a significant impact on their health and well-being.”
Williams identifies as both Black and Mi’kmaq. [Two privileged minority statuses. That should be good for a double discount.]Though he couldn’t prove the latter, the judge was “satisfied” Williams “has established a connection to Indigenous ancestry.”
“It is not unusual for Indigenous people who have struggled under the yoke of colonialism in this country and its intergenerational impact to have lost connections to their roots and community,” Chamberlain said.
“Further, markers of the effects of intergenerational trauma, including poverty, familial addiction, struggles with education and mental health, and over-representation within the criminal justice and child welfare system, are often present when Indigenous identity is confirmed.”
Williams “deserves consideration for the reduced moral blameworthiness associated with these challenges,” said the judge.
Williams, 44, was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of three and continues to have seizures, said the decision.
His lawyer argued “that, in addition to the significant mitigating health and personal circumstances, there are two legal considerations that should mitigate his sentence, bringing it down to an upper reformatory range, namely, the impact and harm a lengthy prison sentence will have on his family, and secondly, that Mr. Williams is addicted to the very drugs he sells, and as an addict-trafficker, he is entitled to significant mitigation,” said the decision, dated Jan. 23.
Chamberlain sentenced Williams, who already had a lengthy criminal history, to four-and-a-half years in prison.
“Mitigation for addict traffickers applies to cases where addicts agree to purchase a small amount of a street drug from their dealer on behalf of someone unknown to the dealer,” said the judge.
“They usually ask for the money up front, get a good deal from their dealer, and then chip off a portion of the drugs they have purchased for their own personal use, as a means of feeding their addiction,” Chamberlain said.
That’s not the case with Williams, said the judge.
“I do not deny that he is addicted to cocaine and likely other substances as well. However, the amounts of drugs he had in his possession on each of the three occasions he was arrested were substantial. In March 2024, it was just over one ounce; in October 2024, over four ounces; and in January 2024, close to two ounces. These amounts make him a mid-level trafficker. The proceeds seized from him over those three events, totalling over $7,800, strongly suggest that this endeavour is for profit.”
The judge did not consider Williams’ addiction a mitigating factor.
“With respect to the position that I should consider the impact of further incarceration on his family, I agree I should consider the facts before me in consideration of any sentence,” Chamberlain said.
The courts have found that “family separation consequences may justify a sentence adjustment — even a significant one — or a departure from the range,” said the judge.
“This is true even for grave offences that require deterrence and denunciation.”
The judge accepted that some of Williams’ “children are infants or toddlers, and that any assistance must benefit the mother who cares for them. However, I note that Lloyd Williams has already jeopardized his ability to be with his children and provide support by his repeated re-offending while on bail and strict house arrest conditions, and finally by his house arrest with a surety.”
The judge also noted that in 2021 and 2024, Williams “was convicted of serious domestic assault charges, including assault by choking. His troubled past relationship, which led to domestic assaults, suggests a diminished value in the support he provides to his children and family.”
The judge said he gave less consideration to Williams’ “claim that his children and their mother will suffer familial harm from his incarceration, given his past and these criminal acts.”
But Chamberlain said Williams “is entitled to mitigation, to a greater or lesser extent, for these and the other mitigating circumstances.
“I have already dismissed the financial impact on his family because the court cannot condone the notion that the loss of proceeds from a drug trafficking enterprise can be considered mitigating,” Chamberlain said.
“But I cannot discount what, at a minimum, is a fit sentence in these circumstances, to a time-served sentence, because of this unfortunate impact on the family.”
Chamberlain recognized Williams’ “decision to forgo his right to a trial on these matters as significantly mitigating, and he receives credit for that,” said the decision.