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Marine Cpl: Dean Walcott and News Conference

marine cpl: Dean Walcott, whose case is due in Federal Court in September, according to Toronto Star. By Colin Perkel The Canadian Press Fri., July 22, 2016 American soldiers who fled to Canada rather than fight in Iraq joined activists and a Liberal backbencher on Friday to urge the government of Justin Trudeau to end legal action against them and grant them residency status. He is pictured at a news conference with another U.S. war dodger, former U.S. Marine Cpl. Bolstered by a recent British report that found no justification for the bloody U.S.-led invasion, the war resisters pleaded for the Liberal government to make good on promises to end their state of limbo. Dean Walcott, 34, who came to Canada in 2006, told a news conference. I'm shocked and dismayed that it still going on, former U.S. Marine Cpl. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.