The Wrongs of Canada’s Immigration System
Posted by admin on Oct 5th, 2009
By No One Is Illegal-Toronto – Monday, October 5, 2009
Some believe that the Canadian immigration system is fair and generous. It isn’t. And Stephen Harper and Jason Kenney are swiftly making it even worse. They are underhandedly taking apart the so-called ‘objective’ points-based system. They are moving quickly to get rid of its ‘humanitarian’ part, the refugee process. In its place, they are setting up temporary work programs that are designed to push most migrants in to vulnerable, precarious and temporary jobs without access to services or the ability to unionize.
Big Brother USA: Police State Raids Against Immigrants
Posted by admin on Sep 25th, 2009
by Stephen Lendman. Global Research, September 25, 2009
In 2003, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established its largest investigative and enforcement branch – the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arm (ICE) “as a law enforcement agency for the post-9/11 era, to integrate enforcement authorities against criminal and terrorist activities, including the fights against human trafficking and smuggling violent transnational gangs and sexual predators on children (who are) criminal (and) terrorist” threats to the nation. Along with Muslims, Latinos are its prime targets, often using militarized unconstitutional tactics against vulnerable, defenseless people. Post-9/11, the Bush administration initiated them, and they continue under Obama.
Abdelrazik sues Ottawa for $27-million
Posted by admin on Sep 24th, 2009
Paul Koring, Globe and Mail Thursday, Sep. 24, 2009
Abousfian Abdelrazik is suing the government – and Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon personally – for $27-million over Canada’s role in his arrest and alleged torture in Sudan and for violating his constitutional right to come home. Mr. Abdelrazik, who spent nearly six years in prison or forced exile while his attempts to come home were thwarted, returned to Canada in June after Ottawa was ordered by a federal judge to repatriate the 47-year-old Sudanese-Canadian. The lawsuit filed Wednesday seeks more than double the $10.5-million the Harper government paid Maher Arar, the Canadian tortured in Syria.
Top judge warns against overzealous anti-terrorism measures
Posted by admin on Sep 22nd, 2009
By Janice Tibbetts, Canwest News Service, September 22, 2009
OTTAWA — Canada’s most senior judge cautioned Tuesday against going overboard in the fight against terrorism by putting too much emphasis on the 9/11 attacks in the U.S. at the expense of sacrificing civil rights and charter protections. Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin’s warning that lawmakers, judges and citizens must heed the big picture comes as the federal government’s war on terror is taking a beating in the
nation’s courts.
