Sayed Shah Sharifi: Paul Watson

Sharifi Dept: I was appalled, disgusted and angry as I read Paul Watson s accounts of the Afghan interpreter Sayed Shah Sharifi s rejection for the special visa programme by our immigration department. The bafflegab response to the Star from Immigration Minister Jason Kenney should not surprise me as it is typical of the Conservative dictatorial approach to governing, according to The Star. This applicant has no fewer than 13 Canadian officials who worked closely with him on the battlefield and all declared him not only an upstanding young man, but also a hero. Their word should certainly trump the unfounded suspicions of a few bureaucrats. Sharifi sounds like exactly the kind of immigrant Canada needs and re: Making the case for a comrade, Nov. 19 The suspicion that Sharifi was rejected because he had the timerity to speak out to the Star is probably correct. If it is, it demonstrates that Kenney abnd his immigration henchmen are morally bankrupt. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.