Federal Judge Sean Harrington: Canada

Canada Dept: It a question that dividing Canada immigration adjudicators and federal judges as they struggle to determine the asylum-seekers fate, according to court documents, according to Calgary Herald. In a decision released this week, Federal Judge Sean Harrington said members of the Immigration and Refugee Board and justices of the Federal Court have not been consistent on this question. As a result, it may well be a matter of chance who is allowed to stay in Canada and who is not, the judge said and they made their journey on the MV Sun Sea together. But is every passenger from the ship that carried nearly 500 Tamil migrants to Canada in 2010 at risk of persecution if sent home because of the vessel links to the Tamil Tigers rebel group and their own notoriety? At issue is whether the publicity around the ship arrival which reignited an immigration debate in Canada and its ties to the Tamil Tigers now make all of the migrants members of a social group that would be exposed to persecution in Sri Lanka. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.