The women caged in this country’s jails are among the most vulnerable under the Canadian flag.
Most are victims of abuse, poverty and violence. Most of the crimes they’ve committed are drug-related to feed their addictions.
Most have children. Most are non-violent. Most remain vulnerable even behind prison bars.
So in Canada of 2025, it stands to reason that the Correctional Service Canada thought it a stellar idea to consider housing a killer who butchered his wife and two children in a medium-security women’s prison.
CSC has yet to decide on Mohamad Al Ballouz’s accommodation but as he now identifies as a woman named Levana, well … that changes everything. Our Levana wants to be caged in the medium-security Joliette Institution for Women.
Who is Al Ballouz and why should he be in a women’s prison?
For starters, he’s a monster.
In December, he was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 25 years.
On the night of Sept. 24-25, 2022, Ballouz — before morphing into Levana — butchered his wife, Synthia Bussières, stabbing her 23 times. As she breathed her last, Ballouz turned his attention to their two small children, Eliam, 5, and Zac, just 2.
He suffocated his children and when they were dead, he attempted to take himself off the board by gulping down washer fluid after trying to set the family’s Brossard condo ablaze.
Repping himself — and at this point identifying as a woman, Ballouz told the court that cops had it all wrong. It was, in fact, Bussières who murdered the boys and he, uh, tried to save them.
Judge Eric Downs called the nutty gambit “implausible” adding that Ballouz “villi(fied) Synthia Bussières from the grave.”
“The murder of the victim is especially brutal and the circumstances surrounding it demonstrate the sadistic nature of the accused and her great dangerousness,” Downs wrote, adding the killer is “remorseless.”
But all is not lost for the vile Ballouz living his/her best life.
Women’s prisons are different. For starters, the harshest is medium security, the food is better, and there is more freedom.
If CSC gives the green light to Ballouz, it would allow them to wiggle out of serving hard time in a violent, maximum security men’s prison. And isn’t that what’s important?
CSC said that typically offenders are assessed within two to three months. It added that “the victims’ concerns are taken into account” when determining prison placement.
But, but, but … there is that gender identity thing, right? Surely that trumps all?
CSC added: “This includes placement in an institution that better aligns with the offender’s gender identity or expression, if that is their preference, regardless of their sex (i.e. anatomy) and regardless of the gender or sex marker on their identity documents.”
Unless, of course, there are “safety concerns.” But why let stuff like that get in the way?
In the wake of a 2023 study, activist Heather Mason told me that a shocking “41% of transwomen are in for homicide-related crimes while with male inmates it’s only 21%.”
On June 17, 2017, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — overcome with righteous virtue signalling — amended Bill C-16, adding “gender expression and identity” to the roster of the Canadian Human Rights Act.
As a result, scores of violent transgender offenders are now nestled in Canada’s women’s prisons instead of the male pens where they belong.
Mohamad Al Ballouz — aka Levana Ballouz — has a chilling penchant for homicidal violence against women. That should torpedo any quest to let the fox in the henhouse.
But I wouldn’t bet on it.
@HunterTOSun