Rare Appearance: Canadian Authorities

Vancouver Sun Dept: In a rare appearance before the Immigration and Refugee Board, Rod Holloway, managing lawyer of appeals at the Legal Services Society of B.C., said smuggling is defined, in part, as "clandestine entry" into a country, according to Vancouver Sun. He played a television report from around the time of the ship's arrival that suggested the passengers were happy to be met by Canadian authorities and contrary to the government's repeated assertions, the arrival last summer of 492 Tamils aboard the MV Sun Sea was not part of a humansmuggling operation, a lawyer for one of the migrants said Friday. Holloway agreed that the Sun Sea's arrival was part of a complex, wellorganized and probably profitable operation, but "the intention appears to have been to bring the ship to Canada and report to a port of entry, not to enter Canada clandestinely." As reported in the news.
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