Canadian Authorities Dept: “The intention appears to have been to bring the ship to Canada and to report at a port of entry, not to try and enter Canada clandestinely,” he said, according to Globe And Mail. Past IRB detention reviews and admissibility hearings have considered what constitutes membership in a terrorist organization – such as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam – and what makes someone a human smuggler and in his submission, Mr. Holloway said the MV Sun Sea’s intention was far different from that of a Chinese boat that arrived a decade earlier. In that case, Mr. Holloway said, some of the migrants were dropped off on the west coast so they could make a run for it. In the MV Sun Sea’s case, people onboard cheered when they were intercepted by Canadian authorities. “What has happened in this case is not smuggling and the people involved should not be denied access to the refugee process when they came here in good faith.” As
reported in the news.
@t liberation tigers of tamil eelam, globe and mail
16.4.11