Michael Saini and Guatemala

Guatemala: Why three adults and six children recently hopped a plane to Guatemala to flee Canadian officials , however, does not appear to be as calculated a choice, according to The Star. Guatemala would not be a place that you would expect them to go to, said Michael Saini, an associate professor of social work at the University of Toronto, and an expert in child welfare, adding that other countries have not signed the same international agreement and For the 200 members of controversial ultra-orthodox sect Lev Tahor, the choice to move to from Quebec to Ontario last November had been a considered one: Members saw their new home province as a place more accepting of their religious freedoms. Though the Central American country has far from a perfect record when it comes to child welfare, it also has an international obligation to return the children to Canada. As signatories of the United Nations Hague Convention, a child welfare treaty, Guatemala has agreed to return children who have been wrongly removed from another country. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.