With all this speculation, the one thing of interest (that's actually objective and not subjective) is that the RCMP decided to charge Ferland with aggravated assault compared to simply assault causing bodily harm.
The threshold with what Crown's will run with in regards to the aggravated is usually level of injury, more so them focusing on the "maims, disfigures, or endangers" than necessarily just a "wound". Wound is defined in the same section (268) of the criminal code as:
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(3) For greater certainty, in this section, “wounds” or “maims” includes to excise, infibulate or mutilate, in whole or in part, the labia majora, labia minora or clitoris of a person,
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Just a little clarification on the whole spectrum of assault/assault causing/aggravated assault.
edit: So my speculation would be he obviously falls into the disfigures or endangers categories, and I would have to guess with the broken orbital bone he probably has some serious eye injury that would require some sort of surgery or is not recoverable.