Law360 Canada ( December 1, 2025, 4:39 PM EST) -- Appeal by appellant from sentencing decision. The appellant was convicted of two counts of fraud over $5,000, and one count of obtaining credit by false pretenses. He was sentenced to a global sentence of 8 years of imprisonment which was accompanied by three ancillary orders. He was convicted and sentenced alongside his mother, Ms. Golub, as they were tried together. She did not appeal her sentence of 3 years of imprisonment which was accompanied by the same ancillary orders as the appellant. The appellant’s conviction appeal was previously heard and dismissed by the court. On the sentence appeal, the appellant appealed the length of imprisonment but did not appeal the ancillary orders. He advanced three grounds of appeal to argue that the sentence was demonstrably unfit: first, that the sentencing judge committed an error in principle by failing to correctly identify and weigh the aggravating and mitigating factors; second, that the sentencing judge misidentified analogous sentencing precedents which led to an over-emphasis of the appellant’s moral culpability; third, that the sentencing judge failed to provide sufficient assistance to an unrepresented offender....