Refugee Board Decisions: Immigration Minister Jason Kenney

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney: Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, who has complained about failed refugees abusing their rights to appeal, is being criticized by lawyers for asking the federal court to reverse positive decisions granted to some of the MV Ocean Lady and Sun Sea passengers, who arrived here in 2009 and 2010, according to The Star. It gives rise to the impression that they are trying to use the appeal to intimidate people, to send the message out that they are going to do all they can to block the refugee claims of even the legitimate refugees and Refugee lawyers say Ottawa is abusing the court system by launching frivolous appeals of refugee board decisions to grant protection to Tamil asylum seekers who arrived en masse by boat three years ago. The concern is this is an enormous waste of resources. Some of these appeals seem to be frivolous, said Toronto refugee lawyer Angus Grant. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.