Public Safety Minister Vic Toews: War Crimes

Resounding Success Dept: Public Safety Minister Vic Toews calls it a resounding success: it has seen the capture, thanks to public reporting, of 26 fugitive immigrants, and the expulsion from Canada of 19 of those people. But the list, which appears on a government web-site and uses the public's eyes and ears to capture men and women wanted out of Canada for potential war crimes, criminal convictions or links to terrorism and espionage, masks problems, say law and civil rights experts, according to Vancouver Sun. "In many of the cases in the original list, we were talking about people who were not convicted war criminals, but people for whom there were allegations of involvement in war crimes or crimes against humanity - which is a very, very different thing than suggesting that these people are actually guilty of war crimes," said law professor Sharryn Aiken of Queen's University in Kingston, Ont and one year after its creation, the federal government's "Most Wanted" list still sparks controversy. It has also attracted international attention - not necessarily positive. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.