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Immigration Tribunal: Yang Wang and Chinese Ministry

immigration tribunal: Last year, an immigration tribunal dismissed the federal government's request to revoke Yang Wang's permanent resident status, according to Toronto Star. The government subsequently appealed the decision and lost. In upholding a lower tribunal's decision, the Immigration Appeal Division concluded that Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale and his officials have failed to establish Yang Wang was a member of the Chinese Ministry of State Security MSS or Taiwan's Military Intelligence Bureau MIB to render him inadmissible to Canada. Allan Woods / Toronto Star file photo While the 40-year-old Toronto man had admitted to providing information for both intelligence agencies, the appeal tribunal said the information including details about the activities of Falun Gong, a spiritual practice banned in China was obtained through open source research and personal knowledge. He was not evasive or obfuscatory. The respondent was a responsive witness. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.