This included convicted California serial killer Charles Ng, who prior to his escape from authorities had plotted his route to our shores after carefully considering jurisdictions which offered him the greatest likelihood of state protection from extradition to the United States.īecause Ng faced the death penalty for his vicious streak of murders and rapes, Canada’s Supreme Court had to decide whether this made him ineligible for removal. What Ottawa should have the political fortitude to engage is the Constitutional Notwithstanding Clause and overturn the 1985 Supreme Court of Canada so-called Singh decision, which enshrined Charter of Rights protection to anyone with the means to reach Canada.
What completes the mad circle is that when the Mexican honeymooners eventually did drop their refugee claim, the federal government bureaucracy would have stroked them from the “waiting to be resolved” case files and claimed a success. His and your tax dollars underwrote the scam.
We’re going to stay a while longer, then drop our claim and return home”. We’re newly married and only claimed refugee status in order to have our honeymoon paid for by Canada. My friend, who had worked three jobs to pay for and successfully navigate the immigration bureaucracy for himself and his bride, offered his immigration lawyer’s telephone number, urging the couple to follow his lead and drop their refugee claim. “What are you doing in Canada” my friend asked. Turns out the other couple was also from Mexico. He and his wife were enjoying an old Montreal restaurant dinner when they heard Spanish being spoken by a young couple at an adjoining table. Not long ago a friend and Canadian of Mexican origin shared a story of how comedic Canada’s refugee regulations are viewed outside this nation’s borders. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.