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Canada’s Refugee Process is Broken

August 18th, 2010 · 6 Comments

Amazing! I actually agree with an Editorial in The Vancouver Sun.
“Migrant ship is a distraction from the bigger issue”  was the opinion expressed by the paper Tuesday … and they have it right on.  A lot of attention has been directed at the 490 Tamils who arrived on our shore a few days ago, and how [...]

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Tamils Testing Canada’s Resolve

August 11th, 2010 · 18 Comments

So what do we do now?  Last October, a ship carrying 76 Tamils from Sri Lanka docked in Canada, and all the passengers claimed refugee status.  They are still here, as their cases go through Canada’s drawn out refugee evaluation process: none were sent back to Sri Lanka.
Complicating things even more, coincidentally or deliberately,  some of [...]

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