A Toronto-area trucker caught with 84 kilograms of cocaine at the Blue Water Bridge nearly three years ago was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison.

“Mr. Sidhar, what you did was profoundly wrong. You put other peoples’ lives, their families and communities at risk,” Superior Court Justice Russell Raikes said in a Sarnia courtroom.

And, he asked Chander Sidhar, you did it for what?

“Money,” Raikes said, answering his own question.

Sidhar, 58, of Caledon, was caught at the Sarnia-area bridge with 84 one-kilogram bricks of cocaine worth between $2.5 million and $12.6 million in his truck on Dec. 14, 2022, after returning from picking up loads in California. He made a stop in the U.S. that wasn’t related to trucking and texts recovered from his phone later revealed discussions about

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