Weeks after the incident, in August 2015, Hay was arrested with a female during a high risk takedown on Hwy. 400 near Barrie. He had two loaded handguns and drugs in his possession.

In performing the murders, Hay was in contravention of a gun prohibition he received after being sentenced in 2009 for manslaughter, Bird explained.

Throughout Hay's criminal career, numerous court orders, including repeated jail and bail sentences, have failed to help rehabilitate him, Bird said.

She further noted that out of the 12 jurors who found him guilty, nine thought the appropriate sentence should be consecutive sentences of life, without the chance of parole for 25 years for each murder.

“A (consecutive sentence) is the only way to protect the public and address the gravity of the offences," Bird told the court.

Hay did not offer the court any information about his background to help mitigate the sentence, nor did his lawyer argue against the Crown’s request for a consecutive sentence.

Not many murderers in Canada have been sentenced to consecutive first-degree murder sentences.

Those who have include Derek Saretzky and Douglas Garland, who were each given 75 years without chance of parole in 2017 for several murders they committed separately.

Christopher Husbands was sentenced to life without the chance for parole for 30 years after shooting two men in a crowded Eaton Centre in Toronto.

He is currently appealing that sentence.

Dellen Millard and Mark Smitch were also handed consecutive sentences, neither man eligible for parole for 45 years, in the murder of Tim Bosma and Laura Babcock in February 2018.