Refugee Claimants: Majority Government

Jason Kenney Dept: Kenney s system-abusing bogus refugees include those fleeing discrimination, oppression and hardship not quite horrific enough to satisfy the standards required by the jurisprudence defining and applying the refugee definition. Kenney does not mention that close to 40 per cent of the claimants were recognized as genuine refugees last year. Like falling crime statistics, that is an inconvenient truth for this government. Kenney manages to convert the fact that the system does not confer refugee protection on all who seek it into evidence of system failure, according to The Star. Now, with a majority government in hand, the minister proposes to change the law to make reality bend to his vision. There is no longer a need to treat refugee claimants with basic dignity, or to provide them with a fair opportunity to tell their story. Why bother, since the minister has already determined for all of us that they are bogus and jason Kenney, the minister of Citizenship and Immigration, knows who the real refugees are. Or at least he knows which ones are bogus : refugee claimants from Mexico or Sri Lanka or Hungary are bogus. Bogus refugees include those who use smugglers to overcome the barriers to lawfully reaching countries like Canada which, by signing the refugee convention, have promised not to send back persons fleeing persecution. Kenney made his views clear to voters by highlighting the issue of bogus claims in the last election. And he made them known to the members of the Immigration and Refugee Board the decision-makers who are tasked with determining individual cases based on the evidence, and whose reappointments depend on Kenney s opinion of them. And just to be sure that his views were respected, he took the unprecedented step last year of telling the justices of the Federal Court to stop thwarting his efforts to reform refugee policy by holding government officials legally accountable for their actions. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.