Wafaa Abdou: Canada

Wafaa Abdou Dept: The Mountain resident and his three children are anxiously waiting on the fate of Wafaa Abdou, his wife of 12 years who is awaiting deportation in a Rexdale correctional facility. She is also the subject of an information picket in Hamilton at 4 p.m. outside the the Citizenship and Immigration Canada CIC office on Bay Street North, according to CBC. When the family arrived in June 2011, Wilke was certain his Egyptian-born wife would be welcomed in Canada. Now the east-end native says he feels powerless and guilty. The three children of Wafaa Abdou hold her picture. She has been held at a jail in Rexdale, Ont. since mid-January awaiting deportation. Supplied It's International Women's Day and few appreciate a woman's role in the family today like Ian Wilkie. The family fled Syria's civil war nearly two years ago, starting a tangle with the federal government that Wilkie says exposes the heartlessness of Canada's new immigration laws. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.