Public Safety Minister Vic Toews: Immigration System

Protecting Canada Dept: "This tragedy highlights the need for speedy passage of the Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act," said Public Safety Minister Vic Toews in a media statement, according to Winnipeg Free Press. The 10-metre yacht, which Toews identified as the SV Tabasco 2, was carrying nine people when it ran into mechanical troubles and heavy seas 150 kilometres off Cape Sable Island and sURVIVORS of a yacht that reportedly rolled in heavy seas off Nova Scotia early Tuesday are claiming refugee status and the incident, which claimed one life and left three people missing, is being treated as a possible attempt to smuggle people into Canada. "There is an enormous and unnecessary risk involved with the act of human smuggling. Our government's message is clear to those contemplating a human-smuggling operation -- don't do it." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.