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Lawyers for 'Snowden refugees' demand Trudeau grant asylum before election
Canadian Press
Published:
October 16, 2019
Updated:
October 16, 2019 5:34 PM EDT
OTTAWA — Vanessa Rodel arrived in Canada with her seven-year-old daughter last winter, granted refugee status in Canada as one of seven people who helped shelter American whistleblower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong.
On Wednesday she was on Parliament Hill with daughter Keana, begging the federal government to give the same refugee status to the other five, including her daughter’s father and two half-siblings, their mother and another man.
The group offered shelter and other help for a few weeks to Snowden in 2013, who is wanted in the United States for leaking classified documents from the National Security Agency that exposed the scope of massive American government surveillance operations.
The lawyers say the remaining five applied for refugee status in Canada in 2017 and have exactly the same case as Rodel and her daughter did.
Rodel made a similar plea in May, two months after arriving, but nothing has changed in the others’ cases since then, the lawyers said.
Robert Tibbo, the Montreal human-rights lawyer who helped arrange for Snowden to stay with the refugee families in Hong Kong, said Wednesday he wants the current government to approve the refugee claims before Monday’s election.
“My daughter needs her whole family here in Montreal,” Rodel said Wednesday. “She dreams of her father and sister and brothers being with her. Their absence is causing harm to her.”
Rodel is originally from the Philippines. The remaining refugees are from Sri Lanka and face deportation to their home country, where the lawyers say they face persecution. Her daughter, and her daughter’s two half-siblings, are all stateless, born in Hong Kong as refugees. Their asylum claims in Hong Kong were rejected in 2017 when a Hollywood movie led to their outing as the people who sheltered Snowden before fled to Russia.
Tibbo and the other lawyers say the refugee cases were filed during Trudeau’s first term and he has a responsibility to make a decision before the election possibly hands power to a new prime minister.
They argue that Canada’s delay of their case is because the authorities don’t want to risk upsetting the U.S. government, though they had no specific evidence to that end other than the fact Trudeau and his foreign-affairs minister, Chrystia Freeland, have met other high-profile refugees arriving in Canada.
They also said they don’t trust the Conservatives would agree to grant asylum if leader Andrew Scheer becomes prime minister.
However they based that in part on saying incorrectly that in 2015, the Conservatives were in power when Canada rejected the asylum claim of Alan Kurdi’s family. The photo of the child lying dead on a beach in Turkey as his family tried to flee Syria caused a stir in the 2015 campaign, but ultimately it was discovered his parents had not applied to come to Canada, though other relatives had.
http://torontosun.com/news/national...s-demand-trudeau-grant-asylum-before-election
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So - Ms. Rodel is from the Philippines...............................


and thus SHOULD BE Duartes Problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Is the woman afraid she will get shipped back to Manila in a Cdn garbage container?????????????????????????

 
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Lawyers for 'Snowden refugees' demand Trudeau grant asylum before election
Canadian Press
Published:
October 16, 2019
Updated:
October 16, 2019 5:34 PM EDT
OTTAWA — Vanessa Rodel arrived in Canada with her seven-year-old daughter last winter, granted refugee status in Canada as one of seven people who helped shelter American whistleblower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong.
On Wednesday she was on Parliament Hill with daughter Keana, begging the federal government to give the same refugee status to the other five, including her daughter’s father and two half-siblings, their mother and another man.
The group offered shelter and other help for a few weeks to Snowden in 2013, who is wanted in the United States for leaking classified documents from the National Security Agency that exposed the scope of massive American government surveillance operations.
The lawyers say the remaining five applied for refugee status in Canada in 2017 and have exactly the same case as Rodel and her daughter did.
Rodel made a similar plea in May, two months after arriving, but nothing has changed in the others’ cases since then, the lawyers said.
Robert Tibbo, the Montreal human-rights lawyer who helped arrange for Snowden to stay with the refugee families in Hong Kong, said Wednesday he wants the current government to approve the refugee claims before Monday’s election.
“My daughter needs her whole family here in Montreal,” Rodel said Wednesday. “She dreams of her father and sister and brothers being with her. Their absence is causing harm to her.”
Rodel is originally from the Philippines. The remaining refugees are from Sri Lanka and face deportation to their home country, where the lawyers say they face persecution. Her daughter, and her daughter’s two half-siblings, are all stateless, born in Hong Kong as refugees. Their asylum claims in Hong Kong were rejected in 2017 when a Hollywood movie led to their outing as the people who sheltered Snowden before fled to Russia.
Tibbo and the other lawyers say the refugee cases were filed during Trudeau’s first term and he has a responsibility to make a decision before the election possibly hands power to a new prime minister.
They argue that Canada’s delay of their case is because the authorities don’t want to risk upsetting the U.S. government, though they had no specific evidence to that end other than the fact Trudeau and his foreign-affairs minister, Chrystia Freeland, have met other high-profile refugees arriving in Canada.
They also said they don’t trust the Conservatives would agree to grant asylum if leader Andrew Scheer becomes prime minister.
However they based that in part on saying incorrectly that in 2015, the Conservatives were in power when Canada rejected the asylum claim of Alan Kurdi’s family. The photo of the child lying dead on a beach in Turkey as his family tried to flee Syria caused a stir in the 2015 campaign, but ultimately it was discovered his parents had not applied to come to Canada, though other relatives had.
http://torontosun.com/news/national...s-demand-trudeau-grant-asylum-before-election
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The whole works of them should be turned over to the US government.
 
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MANDEL: GTA criminal with troubled past loses bid to avoid deportation — for now
Michele Mandel
Published:
October 25, 2019
Updated:
October 25, 2019 6:21 PM EDT
Everad Weston Wollery Surgeon came here from Jamaica when he was 8.
Abused by his mom, he was made a Crown ward at 12 and was then bounced from foster home to foster home.
Along the turbulent way, his future would be shaped by two key factors: He fell into a life of crime, and Children’s Aid never applied for citizenship on his behalf.
Now a Federal Court has decided that despite Surgeon’s tough upbringing, it won’t overrule the decision to deport the 29-year-old criminal back to his birthplace.
Did the system fail him, as he argues, or did Surgeon fail himself?
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“His criminal history was egregious, violent, long-standing and escalating,” wrote Federal Court Justice Robert Barnes in dismissing Surgeon’s application to overturn his deportation.
“Mr. Surgeon had been warned in 2013 that further criminal conduct could result in his deportation. Nevertheless, he engaged in an armed assault in the context of an apparent drug deal gone awry.
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“This was his third conviction in about six years for a firearms offence. He was then in his late twenties and well past the point of youthful immaturity.”
Surgeon, who has a criminal record of more than 40 convictions, is currently serving a five-and-a-half year sentence for assault with a weapon, unlawful use of a firearm, and possession of a prohibited weapon.
The deportation process for “serious criminality” was triggered once he was sentenced to a term over six months.
In the first stage of the process, Surgeon appeared at a hearing by video from his prison and the official known as the “minister’s delegate” ruled he was “inadmissible” and referred him to the immigration Division for removal.
In 2018, the immigration division agreed and ordered his deportation.
Surgeon insisted the decision was unreasonable.
Like the overturned deportation of former child refugee Abdoul Abdi last year, he said the official should have considered Charter values and taken his disadvantaged background into account: as a youth, he suffered from undiagnosed bipolar disorder and without a supportive family, he had leaned on friends involved in criminality.
“As a young Black male noncitizen, a former Crown ward, and a person who suffers from mental illness, the Applicant is clearly a member of several historically disadvantaged groups,” his Legal Aid lawyer had argued.
Barnes was sympathetic to Surgeon’s difficult childhood, saying “perhaps not surprisingly, he got involved in the gang and drug culture.”
His history, though, was well known at his hearing, the judge said.
As was the clincher: that Surgeon ignored warnings that if he didn’t abandon his criminal lifestyle, he was risking deportation.
And still, he carried on.
“Surgeon had a proven and lengthy record of serious, violent and escalating criminal behaviour that amply supported the Delegate’s opinion that he had ‘absolutely no regard for Canadian law,’ ” Barnes noted.
So good riddance?
Not so fast.
Surgeon isn’t bound for Jamaica anytime soon. The judge opened the door to an appeal — to the federal appeal court and ultimately, the public safety minister.
“Surgeon came to Canada as a young child. His family life was chaotic and he was made a ward of Ontario child welfare authorities. His criminal behaviour is largely a product of a dysfunctional family, mental health issues and his Canadian experiences in foster care,” Barnes wrote.
“If public authorities failed to take reasonable steps to perfect his citizenship over a period of many years, a valid concern about the appropriateness of deportation does arise. That is, however, a matter for the Minister to consider and not for this Court.”
mmandel@postmedia.com
http://torontosun.com/news/local-ne...d-past-loses-bid-to-avoid-deportation-for-now
 
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Don't you be having a stroke, now.
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STROKE????????????????????????


OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Not me - I am quite healthy and quite sensible as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Which is why so many LIE-berals DISLIKE me so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LIE-berals have such a TWISTED AND POISONED VIEW of equality..............................


they think that any person who presents a more logical or valid argument than they do..............................


SHOULD BE CENSORED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!











Doug Ford says we need tougher bail conditions for gang bangers and he says “we should throw away the key” when locking up thugs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ford is ONLY HALF right!! Tighter bail conditions ARE NOT THE ANSWER - because LIE-beral hug a thug judges give THREE DAYS CREDIT FOR EACH DAY SERVED while thugs sit in jail waiting for trial!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tighter bail means thugs GET OUT SOONER thanks to LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What we REALLY NEED is an end to plea bargaining that EXCUSES AND FORGETS all manner of crimes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND we need an end to “concurrent” sentences in which a thug commits three crimes and get 3 years for one thing, two years for another and 5 years for a third crime and only a LIE-beral would think it logical NOT to jail the thug for TEN YEARS for his various offences!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LIE-berals think it is logical to look at a thug facing a total of ten years behind bars -and let him serve ALL THREE SENTENCES SIMULTANEOUSLY - meaning the ASSHAT is sentenced to ten years that are magically changed into FIVE YEARS by concurrent LIE-beral sentencing AND THEN LIE-berals GIVE TIME OFF that meager five years - FOR GOOD BEHAVIOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No wonder gang bangers think Cdn law is a LIE-beral JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Teachers whine that “Ford Cuts” are damaging education!!

But it is TEACHER UNIONS AND SCHOOL TRUSTEES who are behind the move to FIRE some teachers - so the survivors can SHARE THE EXTRA GRAVY!

Teachers have become like bank robbers who are bumping each other off so they will not have to SHARE THE LOOT with so many members!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The school Trustee gang has also embraced this method of getting a bigger share!!!!

Bump off teachers and save on salaries- so trustees will have more cash to repair schools they have neglected and allowed to ROT for so long - because so much of school board funding goes to HOG GRAVY that there is NONE left for school repairs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is an IDEAL SITUATION for Teacher Hogs and Trustees since they get to do as they please and screw both the public and govt - and BLAME IT ON FORD!!!!!!!

LIE-berals whine that Doug Ford broke Ontari-owe law by killing the LIE-beral carbon crap and trade tax SCAM WITHOUT first indulging in 30 days worth of “consultations” with the public!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But LIE-berals IGNORE REALITY - in the form of the 2018 Ontari-owe election in which Ford CONSISTENTLY STATED that if elected he would kill the LIE-beral carbon SCAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So NOT ONLY DID Ford offer up 30 days worth of consultation - he also GOT VOTER SUPPORT for his desire to kill the carbon SCAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thios of course is the GREAT ISSUE for LIE-berals and the reason for their SOUR GRAPES - that THEY WOULD BE REJECTED in favour of Ford - who most LIE-berals regard as a mouth breathing Troglodyte!!!!!!!!!!!

LIE-beral HATE of Ford is related to BRUISED EGOS and lost gravy!!!!!!!!!!!!

Would it not have been easier to pay for kids Autism treatment in Ontari-owe if LIE-berals had not wasted a BILLION dollars on the gas plant scandal???????

Would it not be easier to pay our bills if LIE-berals had not decided that hugely costly green energy price gouging was the solution to our govt debt problems?????

And would it not be easier to pay our bills if LIE-berals had not spent so very much money BUYING civil service union HOG votes???????????????

Why is it that the people who are most likely to tell us not to worry about our huge debts- are the very people who benefit most from that govt debt?????????

Why is it that teachers cry about Ford education cuts - even though his budget is two billion dollars HIGHER than the LIE-beral version????????????????

No wonder our kids cannot do math when their teachers consider a two billion dollar add on AS A CUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How is it that teachers cry about the Ford mandated “devastation” in schools -but it is actually SCHOOL BOARDS who will be making most of the cuts - to support staff, school cleaning and to heat and maintenance in order to give teachers the gravy they feel entitled to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is it fair that teachers with their monopoly stranglehold on education - should be able to FORCE elected leaders to cannibalize other sections of the system in order to dig up MORE GRAVY FOR TEACHERS????????????????????????

Toronto Sun writer Christina Blizzard did an article on the gross IMBALANCE Wynne-bag LIE-berals were promoting - in which funding for teachers rose FIFTY PERCENT FASTER than did funding for health - IN SPITE of the falling number of kids in our school system - and the SOARING NUMBER of patients needing medical care!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is it fair to sick people that LIE-berals have decided that it is easier to buy votes from the education system than from the health care system and thus patients can be LIE-berally SCREWED with rationed health care - based on LIE-beral lust for power and need for votes??????????????????????????

Why is it that when a civil servant getting ONE THIRD MORE pay than a person in the private sector doing the same job- has a wage freeze- it is a sign of Conservative govt dictatorship - but when a govt union with a monopoly stranglehold on an essential service GOES TO WAR with our elected govt for more gravy -the HOGS Claim they are merely asking for fairness???????????????

How fair is it that a bunch of HOGS - who represent ONLY A MINORITY OF CDNS feel entitled to BULLY an elected govt that is struggling to keep us from sliding into bankruptcy thanks to RECORD levels of LIE-beral debt????????????

Teachers tell us that if they do not get the gravy they are demanding - then our KIDS WILL SUFFER- with lower graduation rates and lesser job skills!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do teachers not care that they sound just like MAFIA GOONS selling their “protection service” to shop owners?????????????????????
 
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Russian spy Maria Butina released from U.S. prison, deported
Reuters
Published:
October 25, 2019
Updated:
October 25, 2019 9:00 PM EDT
In this file photo taken on Oct. 8, 2013, Maria Butina, leader of a pro-gun organization, speaks during a press conference in Moscow. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
WASHINGTON — Convicted Russian agent Maria Butina was released from a Florida prison on Friday after serving most of her 18-month sentence for conspiring to influence U.S. conservative activists and infiltrate a powerful gun rights group, and taken into custody by immigration officials to be deported to her native country.
Butina, 31, had been scheduled for release from the low-security prison in Tallahassee in early November, but a change in federal law moved up her release date based on credit for good behavior, her attorney Robert Driscoll said.
A prison official confirmed she was released on Friday morning and taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities.
She left Miami International Airport on a direct flight to Moscow at about 6 p.m. (2200 GMT), ICE said in a statement.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously expressed “outrage” over Butina’s prison sentence and said she did not carry out any orders from Russian security services.
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Butina, a former graduate student at American University in Washington who publicly advocated for gun rights, pleaded guilty in December to one count of conspiring to act as a foreign agent and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.
The Siberia native admitted to conspiring with a Russian official and two Americans to infiltrate the National Rifle Association, a group closely aligned with U.S. conservatives and Republican politicians including President Donald Trump, and create unofficial lines of communication to try to shape Washington’s policy toward Moscow.
Her 18-month sentence included nine months she spent incarcerated after her July 2018 arrest.
In this file photo released on Aug. 17, 2018 courtesy of the Alexandria Sheriffs Office, shows Maria Butina’s booking photograph when she was admitted into the Alexandria Detention Center in Alexandia, Virginia. (Alexandria Sheriffs Office/AFP via Getty Images)
Butina’s case was separate from former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, which detailed numerous contacts between Trump’s campaign and Russia. Her activities occurred during the same period as the contacts investigated by Mueller.
RUSSIAN OFFICIAL
The Russian official with whom Butina conspired was later identified as Alexander Torshin, a deputy governor of Russia’s central bank. He was never charged in the case, but was hit with sanctions by the U.S. Treasury Department.
One of the two Americans referenced in her case was conservative political activist Paul Erickson, her boyfriend. Erickson was not charged for his links to Butina, but was indicted on unrelated wire fraud and money laundering charges in South Dakota. The case against Erickson is still pending.
In addition, Overstock.com Chief Executive Officer Patrick Byrne resigned in August after confirming a report by Fox News contributor Sara Carter that he also had an intimate relationship with Butina.
Federal prosecutors have said Butina did not engage in “traditional” spy craft, but worked behind the scenes to make inroads in conservative political circles and promote friendlier U.S.-Russian relations. She arranged dinners in Washington and New York and attended events to meet prominent politicians.
Butina in 2015 appeared at a Trump campaign event and asked him a question about whether he wanted better relations with Russia. Trump responded by telling Butina that he would “get along very nicely with Putin.”
Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs last year accused the United States of forcing Butina to make a false confession to “absolutely ridiculous charges” of being a Russian agent.
“It’s not clear what she was convicted of or what crime she committed,” Putin said in April. “I think it’s a prime example of ‘saving face.’ They arrested her and put the girl in jail. But there was nothing on her, so in order not to look totally stupid they gave her, fixed her up, with an 18-month sentence to show that she was guilty of something.”
Asked whether Washington now expects Russia to release a former U.S. Marine named Paul Whelan currently being held on accusations of espionage, a State Department spokesperson said, “We continue to urge the Russian government to ensure a fair trial, including a fair and public hearing without undue delay, in accordance with its international legal obligations.”
A Russian court on Thursday ordered Whelan, detained in 2018, held in custody until Dec. 29.
Whelan, who holds American, British, Canadian and Irish passports, has denied the espionage allegations.
http://torontosun.com/news/world/russian-spy-maria-butina-released-from-u-s-prison-deported
 
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Russian spy Maria Butina released from U.S. prison, deported
Reuters
Published:
October 25, 2019
Updated:
October 25, 2019 9:00 PM EDT
In this file photo taken on Oct. 8, 2013, Maria Butina, leader of a pro-gun organization, speaks during a press conference in Moscow. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
WASHINGTON — Convicted Russian agent Maria Butina was released from a Florida prison on Friday after serving most of her 18-month sentence for conspiring to influence U.S. conservative activists and infiltrate a powerful gun rights group, and taken into custody by immigration officials to be deported to her native country.
Butina, 31, had been scheduled for release from the low-security prison in Tallahassee in early November, but a change in federal law moved up her release date based on credit for good behavior, her attorney Robert Driscoll said.
A prison official confirmed she was released on Friday morning and taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities.
She left Miami International Airport on a direct flight to Moscow at about 6 p.m. (2200 GMT), ICE said in a statement.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously expressed “outrage” over Butina’s prison sentence and said she did not carry out any orders from Russian security services.
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Butina, a former graduate student at American University in Washington who publicly advocated for gun rights, pleaded guilty in December to one count of conspiring to act as a foreign agent and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.
The Siberia native admitted to conspiring with a Russian official and two Americans to infiltrate the National Rifle Association, a group closely aligned with U.S. conservatives and Republican politicians including President Donald Trump, and create unofficial lines of communication to try to shape Washington’s policy toward Moscow.
Her 18-month sentence included nine months she spent incarcerated after her July 2018 arrest.
In this file photo released on Aug. 17, 2018 courtesy of the Alexandria Sheriffs Office, shows Maria Butina’s booking photograph when she was admitted into the Alexandria Detention Center in Alexandia, Virginia. (Alexandria Sheriffs Office/AFP via Getty Images)
Butina’s case was separate from former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, which detailed numerous contacts between Trump’s campaign and Russia. Her activities occurred during the same period as the contacts investigated by Mueller.
RUSSIAN OFFICIAL
The Russian official with whom Butina conspired was later identified as Alexander Torshin, a deputy governor of Russia’s central bank. He was never charged in the case, but was hit with sanctions by the U.S. Treasury Department.
One of the two Americans referenced in her case was conservative political activist Paul Erickson, her boyfriend. Erickson was not charged for his links to Butina, but was indicted on unrelated wire fraud and money laundering charges in South Dakota. The case against Erickson is still pending.
In addition, Overstock.com Chief Executive Officer Patrick Byrne resigned in August after confirming a report by Fox News contributor Sara Carter that he also had an intimate relationship with Butina.
Federal prosecutors have said Butina did not engage in “traditional” spy craft, but worked behind the scenes to make inroads in conservative political circles and promote friendlier U.S.-Russian relations. She arranged dinners in Washington and New York and attended events to meet prominent politicians.
Butina in 2015 appeared at a Trump campaign event and asked him a question about whether he wanted better relations with Russia. Trump responded by telling Butina that he would “get along very nicely with Putin.”
Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs last year accused the United States of forcing Butina to make a false confession to “absolutely ridiculous charges” of being a Russian agent.
“It’s not clear what she was convicted of or what crime she committed,” Putin said in April. “I think it’s a prime example of ‘saving face.’ They arrested her and put the girl in jail. But there was nothing on her, so in order not to look totally stupid they gave her, fixed her up, with an 18-month sentence to show that she was guilty of something.”
Asked whether Washington now expects Russia to release a former U.S. Marine named Paul Whelan currently being held on accusations of espionage, a State Department spokesperson said, “We continue to urge the Russian government to ensure a fair trial, including a fair and public hearing without undue delay, in accordance with its international legal obligations.”
A Russian court on Thursday ordered Whelan, detained in 2018, held in custody until Dec. 29.
Whelan, who holds American, British, Canadian and Irish passports, has denied the espionage allegations.
http://torontosun.com/news/world/russian-spy-maria-butina-released-from-u-s-prison-deported
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Is it not AMAZING that Jackass John, the Sorry Tory mayor of Toronto..........................


has suddenly STOPPED whining about the cost of dealing with the "homeless" in Toronto!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I guess the 40 plus percent of "homeless ILLEGALS who are clogging Toronto Shelters..............................


DONT NEED help now that they are living in LIE-beral Land!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Is Jackass John REALLY so gullible that he actually thinks that Our idiot Boy Justin................................


will suddenly SHOWER Toronto with GRAVY????????????????????????????


There are two things Jackass John apparently does not understand::::::::


"DEBT WALL" - and "Minority govt"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



|The days of free wheeling LIE-beral BRIBERY ARE COMING TO AN END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LIE-berals and their idiot cousins the Greenies and NDPees are entering into a DOG FIGHT...................................


to see who will control the LEFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The IDIOT IRONY of the Toronto situation is the city has already COMMITTED ITSELF to LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


If Toronto wants ORE GRAVY - it will have to do as Quebec does..................................


BECOME A POLITICAL WILD CARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Toronto will HAVE NO HOPE of getting more gravy from LIE-berals or the idiot cousins.............................


unless it SELLS ITS VOTES MUCH MORE EFFECTIVELY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Courts should decide if refugee board in contempt: Law society
Canadian Press
Published:
October 31, 2019
Updated:
October 31, 2019 2:36 PM EDT
Richard Odeleye (CNW Group/Richard Odeleye)
The tribunal responsible for disciplining lawyers in Ontario has asked the courts whether Canada’s refugee board is in contempt for failing to produce certain documents.
The request comes in the case of Toronto immigration lawyer, Richard Odeleye, accused by three former clients of sexual harassment. They allege he made unwelcome sexual advances and comments, or touched them inappropriately, prompting professional misconduct allegations and a disciplinary hearing.
As part of his defence, Odeleye asked the federal Immigration and Refugee Board for records related to his accusers’ refugee claims. The Law Society Tribunal agreed it should be given the records for review and possible disclosure to the lawyer, but the board has balked.
“The animus that the IRB has shown for our adjudicative processes and procedures is concerning,” Thomas Conway, chairman of the tribunal panel, said in a written decision. “The IRB’s contempt for our process is surprising, coming as it does from a federal administrative tribunal that has the same or similar obligations of procedural fairness as we have.”
In March after hearing arguments from the parties, the law tribunal ordered the refugee board to hand over the information. The board initially gave the law tribunal 90 pages of documents, some redacted. In response, the tribunal in late April asked for more records, along with unredacted copies of documents already turned over.
The refugee board refused. Among other things, it argued the tribunal had no authority to issue its order, and that the Privacy Act precluded disclosure anyway. In response, the tribunal insisted it did have such powers and again ordered the board to provide the materials by late May.
The board ignored the order and deadline, documents show. During a teleconference in July, a lawyer for the refugee board, Jennifer Harnum, said again that the tribunal had no authority to make its order.
The law tribunal was unimpressed.
“We accept that the IRB and its counsel may not agree with our decision or with our reasoning,” Conway wrote. “But Ms. Harnum, as an experienced counsel, and her client, a federal administrative tribunal, should know better than to simply ignore an order made by an administrative tribunal with the statutory authority to make the order.”
The tribunal repeated its demand for the records in June — again to no effect.
“No reasonable explanation for the refusal has been tendered for the IRB’s non-compliance,” Conway said last week. “The IRB’s conduct has been as baffling to us as it has been frustrating.”
Rather than radio silence, the “sophisticated” board could have appealed or asked the courts to get involved, Conway wrote. Simply ignoring the demand was inappropriate and would hurt the fairness of the hearing against Odeleye, he said. Instead, he said, it had deliberately defied the production orders.
As a result, Conway wrote, the tribunal has decided to ask Divisional Court whether the Immigration and Refugee Board is in contempt.
Odeleye, who is in his 60s, was charged criminally in 2015 with sexual assault related to one of the complainants. The prosecution withdrew those charges seven months later. Odeleye maintained the woman was a “disgruntled former client.”
http://torontosun.com/news/provincial/courts-should-decide-if-refugee-board-in-contempt-law-society
 
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Courts should decide if refugee board in contempt: Law society
Canadian Press
Published:
October 31, 2019
Updated:
October 31, 2019 2:36 PM EDT
Richard Odeleye (CNW Group/Richard Odeleye)
The tribunal responsible for disciplining lawyers in Ontario has asked the courts whether Canada’s refugee board is in contempt for failing to produce certain documents.
The request comes in the case of Toronto immigration lawyer, Richard Odeleye, accused by three former clients of sexual harassment. They allege he made unwelcome sexual advances and comments, or touched them inappropriately, prompting professional misconduct allegations and a disciplinary hearing.
As part of his defence, Odeleye asked the federal Immigration and Refugee Board for records related to his accusers’ refugee claims. The Law Society Tribunal agreed it should be given the records for review and possible disclosure to the lawyer, but the board has balked.
“The animus that the IRB has shown for our adjudicative processes and procedures is concerning,” Thomas Conway, chairman of the tribunal panel, said in a written decision. “The IRB’s contempt for our process is surprising, coming as it does from a federal administrative tribunal that has the same or similar obligations of procedural fairness as we have.”
In March after hearing arguments from the parties, the law tribunal ordered the refugee board to hand over the information. The board initially gave the law tribunal 90 pages of documents, some redacted. In response, the tribunal in late April asked for more records, along with unredacted copies of documents already turned over.
The refugee board refused. Among other things, it argued the tribunal had no authority to issue its order, and that the Privacy Act precluded disclosure anyway. In response, the tribunal insisted it did have such powers and again ordered the board to provide the materials by late May.
The board ignored the order and deadline, documents show. During a teleconference in July, a lawyer for the refugee board, Jennifer Harnum, said again that the tribunal had no authority to make its order.
The law tribunal was unimpressed.
“We accept that the IRB and its counsel may not agree with our decision or with our reasoning,” Conway wrote. “But Ms. Harnum, as an experienced counsel, and her client, a federal administrative tribunal, should know better than to simply ignore an order made by an administrative tribunal with the statutory authority to make the order.”
The tribunal repeated its demand for the records in June — again to no effect.
“No reasonable explanation for the refusal has been tendered for the IRB’s non-compliance,” Conway said last week. “The IRB’s conduct has been as baffling to us as it has been frustrating.”
Rather than radio silence, the “sophisticated” board could have appealed or asked the courts to get involved, Conway wrote. Simply ignoring the demand was inappropriate and would hurt the fairness of the hearing against Odeleye, he said. Instead, he said, it had deliberately defied the production orders.
As a result, Conway wrote, the tribunal has decided to ask Divisional Court whether the Immigration and Refugee Board is in contempt.
Odeleye, who is in his 60s, was charged criminally in 2015 with sexual assault related to one of the complainants. The prosecution withdrew those charges seven months later. Odeleye maintained the woman was a “disgruntled former client.”
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That is an EXCELLENT ARTICLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Truly indicative of the level of respect that LIE-berals...........................................


and their civil service union HOG allies DO NOT HAVE...................................


for the rule of law or public opinion in this country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
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Uproar from students after Quebec restricts access to fast-track immigration
Canadian Press
Published:
November 5, 2019
Updated:
November 5, 2019 10:35 PM EST
Simon Jolin-Barrette Minister of Immigration, Diversity and Inclusiveness arrives to unveil new measures, including a test for immigrants, Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at the legislature in Quebec City. .Jacques Boissinot / THE CANADIAN PRESS
QUEBEC — In a rare show of solidarity, all of Quebec’s opposition parties gathered Tuesday with a group of foreign students to denounce the government’s latest immigration reforms, which they described as cruel and inhumane.
Hundreds of foreign students in the province recently learned they might be forced to leave because of retroactive changes to a popular fast-track immigration program, which used to be open to all university graduates and others who completed technical degrees.
The Quebec experience program will now be open only to a select list of graduates who are seeking work in industries the government says are facing labour shortages, Immigration Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette announced last week.
Monsef Derraji, a Liberal member of the legislature, told reporters Tuesday the government’s latest immigration reforms are breaking lives and killing dreams.
“We attracted them to Quebec — with a big publicity campaign — from all over Europe, Africa, Asia, South America … they speak our language, share our values, survived our winters …. It’s unacceptable,” Derraji said.
Story continues below
Derraji stood alongside members of the other opposition parties as well as about 20 foreign students, many of whom had tears in their eyes during the news conference.
Clement Sageste, a student from France who is well-established in Quebec, said, “I felt an anger, a betrayal …. they give you something, then take it away. It’s inhumane.”
A woman from China broke down in tears describing how she and her husband had moved to Quebec three years ago, learned French and bought a home, and may now have to leave the province.
Jolin-Barrette told reporters later in the day the Quebec experience program must be open to people who can fill the needs of the province’s economy. He rejected calls to modify the reforms by allowing foreign students already in the province to qualify under the old rules.
Quebec doesn’t just need people who have university degrees, he said.
“There are enough lawyers in Quebec,” the minister said. “What we need … are people who can respond to the jobs that are available in all the regions, notably in factories, in professional and in technical jobs.”
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Quebec Premier Francois Legault, like his immigration minister, shrugged off the morning’s emotional news conference. He said the fast-track residency program remains open to graduates the province desperately needs, such as people with degrees in information technology, engineering, artificial intelligence and nursing sciences.
Legault said he was sensitive to the concerns of the students who were cut out of the program, but added: “no student was given a study permit with the guarantee they would eventually be given citizenship.”
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Uproar from students after Quebec restricts access to fast-track immigration
Canadian Press
Published:
November 5, 2019
Updated:
November 5, 2019 10:35 PM EST
Simon Jolin-Barrette Minister of Immigration, Diversity and Inclusiveness arrives to unveil new measures, including a test for immigrants, Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at the legislature in Quebec City. .Jacques Boissinot / THE CANADIAN PRESS
QUEBEC — In a rare show of solidarity, all of Quebec’s opposition parties gathered Tuesday with a group of foreign students to denounce the government’s latest immigration reforms, which they described as cruel and inhumane.
Hundreds of foreign students in the province recently learned they might be forced to leave because of retroactive changes to a popular fast-track immigration program, which used to be open to all university graduates and others who completed technical degrees.
The Quebec experience program will now be open only to a select list of graduates who are seeking work in industries the government says are facing labour shortages, Immigration Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette announced last week.
Monsef Derraji, a Liberal member of the legislature, told reporters Tuesday the government’s latest immigration reforms are breaking lives and killing dreams.
“We attracted them to Quebec — with a big publicity campaign — from all over Europe, Africa, Asia, South America … they speak our language, share our values, survived our winters …. It’s unacceptable,” Derraji said.
Story continues below
Derraji stood alongside members of the other opposition parties as well as about 20 foreign students, many of whom had tears in their eyes during the news conference.
Clement Sageste, a student from France who is well-established in Quebec, said, “I felt an anger, a betrayal …. they give you something, then take it away. It’s inhumane.”
A woman from China broke down in tears describing how she and her husband had moved to Quebec three years ago, learned French and bought a home, and may now have to leave the province.
Jolin-Barrette told reporters later in the day the Quebec experience program must be open to people who can fill the needs of the province’s economy. He rejected calls to modify the reforms by allowing foreign students already in the province to qualify under the old rules.
Quebec doesn’t just need people who have university degrees, he said.
“There are enough lawyers in Quebec,” the minister said. “What we need … are people who can respond to the jobs that are available in all the regions, notably in factories, in professional and in technical jobs.”
QPP questions 17 people about Desjardins data breach
Kenney says Legault has shaky grasp of history when it comes to equalization
Come 2020, Quebecers will have to be at least 21 years old to legally consume cannabis
Quebec Premier Francois Legault, like his immigration minister, shrugged off the morning’s emotional news conference. He said the fast-track residency program remains open to graduates the province desperately needs, such as people with degrees in information technology, engineering, artificial intelligence and nursing sciences.
Legault said he was sensitive to the concerns of the students who were cut out of the program, but added: “no student was given a study permit with the guarantee they would eventually be given citizenship.”
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Uproar from students after Quebec restricts access to fast-track immigration
Canadian Press
Published:
November 5, 2019
Updated:
November 5, 2019 10:35 PM EST
Simon Jolin-Barrette Minister of Immigration, Diversity and Inclusiveness arrives to unveil new measures, including a test for immigrants, Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at the legislature in Quebec City. .Jacques Boissinot / THE CANADIAN PRESS
QUEBEC — In a rare show of solidarity, all of Quebec’s opposition parties gathered Tuesday with a group of foreign students to denounce the government’s latest immigration reforms, which they described as cruel and inhumane.
Hundreds of foreign students in the province recently learned they might be forced to leave because of retroactive changes to a popular fast-track immigration program, which used to be open to all university graduates and others who completed technical degrees.
The Quebec experience program will now be open only to a select list of graduates who are seeking work in industries the government says are facing labour shortages, Immigration Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette announced last week.
Monsef Derraji, a Liberal member of the legislature, told reporters Tuesday the government’s latest immigration reforms are breaking lives and killing dreams.
“We attracted them to Quebec — with a big publicity campaign — from all over Europe, Africa, Asia, South America … they speak our language, share our values, survived our winters …. It’s unacceptable,” Derraji said.
Story continues below
Derraji stood alongside members of the other opposition parties as well as about 20 foreign students, many of whom had tears in their eyes during the news conference.
Clement Sageste, a student from France who is well-established in Quebec, said, “I felt an anger, a betrayal …. they give you something, then take it away. It’s inhumane.”
A woman from China broke down in tears describing how she and her husband had moved to Quebec three years ago, learned French and bought a home, and may now have to leave the province.
Jolin-Barrette told reporters later in the day the Quebec experience program must be open to people who can fill the needs of the province’s economy. He rejected calls to modify the reforms by allowing foreign students already in the province to qualify under the old rules.
Quebec doesn’t just need people who have university degrees, he said.
“There are enough lawyers in Quebec,” the minister said. “What we need … are people who can respond to the jobs that are available in all the regions, notably in factories, in professional and in technical jobs.”
QPP questions 17 people about Desjardins data breach
Kenney says Legault has shaky grasp of history when it comes to equalization
Come 2020, Quebecers will have to be at least 21 years old to legally consume cannabis
Quebec Premier Francois Legault, like his immigration minister, shrugged off the morning’s emotional news conference. He said the fast-track residency program remains open to graduates the province desperately needs, such as people with degrees in information technology, engineering, artificial intelligence and nursing sciences.
Legault said he was sensitive to the concerns of the students who were cut out of the program, but added: “no student was given a study permit with the guarantee they would eventually be given citizenship.”
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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Great article!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


CAQ is CLOSING some of the back door entries into Canada!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


So that potential spies and political agitators cannot INFLUENCE our elections!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


There are ALREADY TOO MANY FOREIGN BORN Asshats influencing our politics........................


for reasons that are grossly selfish and often HOSTILE to Cdn interests!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
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LEVY: North York refugee shelter to be 'activated'
Sue-Ann Levy
Published:
November 6, 2019
Updated:
November 6, 2019 8:29 AM EST
5800 Yonge St. (Google Maps)
City officials are expected to announce plans Wednesday to “activate” a site in north Toronto to transition refugees now staying in GTA hotels and motels, the Toronto Sun has learned.
The former North York hydro site — on Yonge St., north of Finch — has been on hold as “contingency space” since early in the year. That’s when the Toronto Sun found an obscure $3-million line item in the 2019 budget under new and enhanced priorities — described as the costs to transition motel clients to 5,800 Yonge St.
Last Friday, city spokesman Andrea Gonsalves– in response to a query about whether the property will be used this winter — said the “activation” of 5,800 Yonge St. would be announced as part of the city’s “overall winter operations plan” (for homeless and refugee clients) in “the coming weeks.”
However, a source who asked not to be named, told the Sun Tuesday the announcement is likely to come Wednesday morning with the space to be ready to house up to 400 refugees in about two weeks.
The source said Willowdale Councillor John Filion will tell impacted North York community residents about the use of the venue on Thursday. The announcement will come just before Mayor John Tory jets off to New York City on a two-day mission to “encourage foreign direct investment” in a variety of competitive and diverse sectors, particularly in Toronto’s technology sector.
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A statement sent out Tuesday afternoon says Tory will meet with 14 companies.
Meanwhile, pictures of the interior of 5800 Yonge St. show a series of cots lined up and Tuesday city staff and contractors were on site at the building.
The property was sold to a Markham-based condominium developer in April , 2018. Shelter, Support and Housing (SSHA) official Greg Seraganan told me back in February that the owner of the property approached the city to assist with its refugee response and that it was being held as “contingency space.”
Seraganian insisted at the time that the “appropriate notice and information sessions” with the community would be provided if the site was to be activated.
But the source said the community has no idea what’s coming — which seems to be the way city officials and the politicians operate as of late, using the so-called emergency shelter crisis as an excuse.
Asked whether refugees are still coming to Toronto at the same rate, Gonsalves said Tuesday that as of Sept. 27, there were 392 refugee claimants in the shelter system and from Oct. 3-9, another 158 new claimants arrived in Toronto seeking shelter.
“Over the last 18 months, we have seen a gradual increase in the number of refugee and asylum claimant families seeking access to shelter programs through our central intake service,” she said.
“A steady flow of new arrivals fill available space and the placement list for families continues to grow,” she added, noting that in October, 36% of the spaces in the permanent shelter system were occupied by refugee and asylum claimants.
Gonsalves said as of Monday night, 66% of those claimants who provided demographic data listed their country of origin as Nigeria. The remaining top five countries of origin include Ethiopia, Mexico, Uganda and Sudan.
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Last week at city council, SSHA general manager Mary-Anne Bedard was put on the hot seat for signing a secret 10-year lease deal in early August for a Carlton-Parliament Sts.-area building without advising the already beleaguered Cabbagetown community beforehand.
The latest site in that area is less than one kilometre from a controversial drug overdose prevention site operated by Street Health on Dundas St. E. That site has wreaked havoc on the surrounding neighbourhood with repeated reports of lawlessness, harassment, drug dealing, prostitution, noise and break-ins.
The Carlton site — which is expected to cost nearly $10-million to lease and renovate — will house a relocated 24-7 drop-in centre and shelter now located on Adelaide St. E.
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Beauty queen begs Canada for asylum, fearing torture in Iran
Brad Hunter
Published:
November 7, 2019
Updated:
November 7, 2019 5:08 PM EST
Iranian beauty queen Bahareh Zare Bahari is begging Canada for asylum. The outspoken dental student fears she will be raped and murdered if she is deported from the Philippines to Iran. FACEBOOK
An Iranian beauty queen detained on a warrant in the Manila airport is begging Canada to help save her.
Bahareh Zare Bahari — who has been critical of Tehran’s mad mullahs — has been held for the past three weeks at the theocracy’s request.
She fears if she’s deported to Iran, she faces either prison or execution.
“The Philippines is not a safe place. I am asking the Canadian government for asylum so I can be safe and free from Iran’s persecution. My safety is all I ask for,” Bahari said in a news release.
Iranian beauty queen Bahareh Zare Bahari in her cell at the Manila airport. FACEBOOK
According to human rights organization One Free World International (OFWI), Iran is gaming Interpol to persecute and hunt critics of the regime — even beyond the country’s borders.
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OFWI claims that Iran fabricated a bogus assault charge to get Interpol to issue a Red Notice, which prevented Bahari from reentering the Philippines after a short holiday in the United Arab Emirates.
Bahari is studying dental medicine in the Southeast Asian country and represented Iran at the 2018 Miss Intercontinental pageant in Manila.
Iranian beauty queen Bahareh Zare Bahari, right, and below, in UAE, before her troubles began. FACEBOOK
A critic of the Iranian government, she has been a vocal advocate for women’s and human rights.
The organization claims that back in Iran, her family is facing an onslaught of death threats.
Philippines officials have refused to grant Bahari asylum. For the past three weeks, Ninoy Aquino International Airport has been her home.
Iranian beauty queen Bahareh Zare Bahari is begging Canada for asylum. The outspoken dental student fears she will be raped and murdered if she is deported from the Philippines to Iran. FACEBOOK
OFWI has written Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland and Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Ahmed Hussen appealing for Bahari to be granted asylum in Canada and intervene with Philippine authorities to save her life.
Now, Bahari and OFWI have launched a #FreeBahareh campaign and are asking Canadians and people around the world to speak out in support.
“When a rogue regime like Iran uses the Interpol system to persecute people beyond its borders, that’s a danger to us all,” said OFWI founder and president Majed El Shafie.
“The Philippines has proven it is not a safe place for Bahareh, so Minister Freeland and Minister Hussen need to act quickly and grant asylum to ensure Bahareh is safe and away from Iran’s tyrannical reach.”

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Canada defends 'Safe Third Country' pact with U.S. as court wraps up
Reuters
Published:
November 8, 2019
Updated:
November 8, 2019 7:29 PM EST
A family, claiming to be from Colombia, gets set to cross the border into Canada from the United States as asylum seekers on Wednesday, April 18, 2018 near Champlain, NY. Paul Chiasson / THE CANADIAN PRESS
The Canadian government on Friday denied that the rights of any refugees are threatened by a U.S.-Canada agreement that compels asylum seekers trying to cross the border into Canada to first apply for sanctuary in the United States.
Under the Safe Third Country Agreement between the two neighbours, asylum seekers at a formal border crossing traveling in either direction are turned back and told to apply for asylum in the country they first arrived in.
Lawyers for unnamed refugees who had been turned away at the Canadian border are challenging the agreement, saying the United States does not qualify as a “safe” country under U.S. President Donald Trump.
Asylum seekers Canada turned back faced indefinite detention and solitary confinement in the United States with often little access to legal counsel, refugee lawyer Andrew Brouwer said on Monday.
The Canadian government argued in its submission that its “continued reliance on the regime is lawful and meets its Charter and international law obligations,” however.
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“There’s no rights at stake here,” government lawyer Lucian Gregory told the federal court.
The court challenge comes as Canada seeks to stem the human tide of asylum seekers that has flowed into the country over the past three years. Trump was elected in 2016 after promising in his campaign to crack down on illegal immigration.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has changed eligibility rules and wants to expand the Safe Third Country agreement so that it applies to the entire border, not just official border crossings.
Refugee lawyer Leigh Salsberg argued the U.S. system was especially unsafe for women because many U.S. immigration judges don’t regard gender-based violence as grounds for a refugee claim as they do in Canada, meaning that someone who might qualify for refugee status in Canada might be deported from the United States back to their country of origin.
Canada countered that many women have obtained refugee status in the United States and there are enough checks and balances to eliminate any dangers.
Week-long arguments wrapped up on Friday, with the judge expected to render her decision on whether to maintain or suspend the agreement at an undetermined point in the future.
Immigration and Refugee specialist Robert Falconer said suspending the agreement “would have huge implications” for the Canada-U.S. relationship.
“(The Trump administration) might take that to be more of an insult. But the administration might not be turned off by that because it means more people leaving the United States to come to Canada,” he said.
More than 50,000 people have illegally crossed the Canada-U.S. border to file refugee claims over the past three years, walking over ditches and on empty roads along the world’s longest undefended border.
Some asylum seekers have told Reuters they might have stayed in the United States had it not been for Trump’s immigration rhetoric and policies.
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