The case of Christopher Husbands, a Guyanese who has been charged with the killing of a man and the wounding of six others at Toronto’s Eaton Centre has sparked controversy in Canada over the systems for background checks and the monitoring of house arrest.
Husbands, 23, had been placed under house arrest on a sexual assault charge, but was later able to secure a counseling job with six to 12 year-olds without a required background check which would have identified the existing charge.
The terms of his house arrest
