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The judge seems to disagree with you. Like the judge, I have also read the statutes. Gross negligence, as far as the law is comcermed, is far greater than misreading one traffic signal one time.
The driver, as a presumably ordinary human, made an ordinary human mistake, that anyone could make. North American streets are designed so poorly that a single ordinary mistake results in fatalities.
Even if the court could grant the consequences you're asking for it would do nothing to make roads safer.
if you think that not paying attention to the road and a light at an intersection you're driving through at 47 km/h is normal then you need your license revoked. Missing a traffic signal once is missing a speed limit sign, its missing an exit, its accidentally parking on the wrong side of the road during street cleaning. It is not barreling through an intersection at full speed and not even braking until after you've already impacted something. This was not "one mistake" this was an intentional decision (distracted driving is not accodental) that has led to the death of a small child.