Convicted terrorist Mohammad Momin Khawaja was sentenced Thursday to 10.5 years in prison under Canada's Anti-Terrorism Act.
Khawaja is the first Canadian to be charged, and now sentenced, under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
He was convicted last year on five counts of financing and facilitating terrorism for training at a Pakistan camp
CTV's Roger Smith, reporting from the courthouse, said Khawaja received two years each for three of the charges and three months each for the two others.
At his trial, Khawaja was also found guilty of two Criminal Code offences related to building a remote-controlled detonator with the intent of causing an explosion.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Douglas Rutherford sentenced the 29-year-old to four years on one of the offences and the second one was stayed because of overlap with the first.
"Under our new terrorism laws all of these sentences have to be served consecutively so that means 10-and-a-half more years in prison for Momin Khawaja," Smith said Thursday.
Khawaja will have no chance of parole for five years.
Khawaja was arrested back in March 2004 and charged in connection with a foiled U.K. bomb plot.
Five of Khawaja's co-conspirators were convicted in London last year and sentenced to life in prison.
"This is not a case of a vulnerable young person being lured or beguiled into criminal misconduct in which he was not inclined to participate," Rutherford said.
In his original ruling, Rutherford said the prosecution did not prove beyond reasonable doubt that Khawaja was aware his U.K. associates planned to bomb domestic targets using the so-called Hi-Fi Digimonster detonator he built.
As a result, the charges related to the detonator weren't counted as terrorism-related charges.
On Thursday, Rutherford said Khawaja didn't deserve a life sentence, as requested by the Crown, because the five other men were "away out in front . . . in terms of their determination to bring death, destruction and terror to innocent people."
Still, Rutherford said that sentencing in cases of terrorist activity must strongly repudiate activity that undermines Canada's core values.
"Canada must certainly not accept the exportation of terrorism from within its borders to victimize innocent people in other parts of the world," he said.
Some analysts have called the sentence too light, and say that it makes Canada look "soft on terror."
"I think it's a surprisingly light sentence in the circumstances," University of Toronto terror expert Wesley Wark told 麻豆影视.
"Perhaps people will say this is another example that our justice system is too lenient in the face of serious crimes."
Both the Crown and defence said Thursday they were considering appeals.
Khawaja's defence lawyer, Lawrence Greenspon, called the sentence was "excessive."
Greenspon had asked Rutherford to count the five years Khawaja already has served as double.
Although Rutherford considered the request, he did not indicate what credit he gave Khawaja for time served.
Greenspon said the defence will be considering a conviction and sentencing appeal in the coming days.
He said the Crown's request for life sentences for Khawaja was "not right" and "well beyond" what the judge imposed.
"It creates an unrealistic expectation in the minds of the public as to what should happen on sentence," Greenspon said.
Meanwhile, Crown prosecutor David McKercher said he had been seeking a "much longer sentence" from Rutherford.
Still, he said the decision underlines the fact that there's one law in Canada.
"Mr. Khawaja and others like him, whatever their ideology, are not entitled to take matters into their own hands and resort to violence to advance their ideological ends."
