Cindy Ali and Landed Immigrant Status

social assistance: According to the Star Rosie DiManno, Cindy Ali had received landed immigrant status just a month previous , which required signing documents promising she would not apply for social assistance on her daughter behalf . . . Five days before, Ali and her husband had applied for a personal line of credit, according to Toronto Star. Whatever the outcome of Cindy Ali trial, the anguishing personal pressures and perverse incentives created by Canadian immigration rules are clear. Those who can’t afford this are denied entry to Canada. Canada signed the UN Declaration of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2008. He and his family will be returning to Costa Rica in a few months. While the Liberals are repealing the worst aspects of Bill C-24, why not take proactive steps too It is time to bring our immigration law into the 21st century.A colleague of mine at York University – a bilingual ecology professor with a PhD and 20 years’ experience in community-based conservation, hired for York Chair in Neotropical Conservation following a stringent selection process, the perfect person to direct York ecology field courses and research program in Costa Rica – has just been denied Canadian immigration status because his son has Down Syndrome. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.