Manners maketh the animal, and even though it takes one «hard stare» to keep McGinty in check (Paddington's
shameful secret weapon), it's impossible to deny Paddington's radiant influence even on the nastiest, most hardened thugs (Tom Davis, Noah Taylor, Aaron Neil, etc).
Of course, the criminal law is preferable to immigration law, which risks indeterminate detention, judicially sanctioned use of
secret evidence, and Canada's
shameful «loaded
weapon» of the threat of deportation to torture under the Suresh v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) exception.