The first thing we do, Let's kill
all the lawyers, ~— Dick, a soldier
in Shakespeare s Henry Vi, Part 2

DICK WAS a little extreme,
but lawyers can be tricky
artists. As another man of
that profession said long
ago, “I have been a good
lawyer. I have often made
right wrong and wrong
right. ”

Your scribe was reminded of
that sort of thing. when he read a
report in /mmtigration, a news
Sheet put out by the Immigration
‘Association of Canada, which is
‘eritical-of Ottawa's immigration
Mess.

The article was-written by Bob
Reguly, a newspaperman who cov-

“ered a Canadian Bar Association of

“Ontario meeting attended by about
80 immigration lawyezs, half of
' whom were visible minorities.
They were there, apparently, to
* get dround'the rules and regula-
tions. such as they are.’And the
subject of the. symposium was
“Paper Routes to Canada."
“Immigration has. of course
become an industry in which a lot
' of people make a lot-of money and
no one makes more than the legal

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Collins

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profession, which in matters of
immigration.is funded by legal aid.
And there are 400. immigration
lawyers in Ontario alone.

They area powerful lobby. ‘Two
black thugs were charged with the.
murder of a woman in a Toronto
restaurant. Both had been ordered

deported years back but were still

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right ‘of the Immigration and
Refugee Board to grant, delays in
sending criminals out of the coun-
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wilh continue to hear appeals in
such gases. The only exceptions
would be where the minisier
dred a pezson to be a danger to
the public.
Dow hold your breath waiting
Immigration Minister Sergio
Marchi to be tough, though, As Art
Hanger of the Reform Party. has
pointed out, crooks get past his
screen al the Gime by means of
fal permits, the
ed every. year on
“humanitarian grounds.” ete:
There are many ways of beating

Has a “refugee” destroyed his
passport? Encourage him to get a
legitimate one from a relative in
his home town, the Meeting was
advised.

Have some “refugees” told one
story at the airport and another (o
their lawyers? “Blame what they
said at the airport on jet lag.”

Has a-client run out of tactics to

ands of

yers

delay deportation? Make an appeal
to an international body. Oudawa
always backs down while such a
case is under review Gand such
reviews take along timed.

And after atlappests in Canaadia
have been denied, another one
could he made tothe UN, Humin
Rights Commitee, ALLEGING
(ny emphasis) a violation of the
falernational Cavenant on Civil
and Political Rights, 0

Or it could fe ALLEGED (ny
emphasis: againg that he would be

subject to torture in his homeland,

That one worked in the case of a
Pakistani.

Another route, Reguly reported
Barbara Jackman as saying, was to
seek. publicity: he minister is

very attuned to publicity. I doubt if

he makes a decision without tatk-

ing: to his press secretary. AS it
: result, fie doesn" t make many deci-
“sions.”

She might have added, but
didn’t, that our media are suckers

emphasis.)

for any hard luck refugee story.
The chaianan oof the
Associilion’s immigeation seedon
wits reported ‘as saying that while:
independent immigrants need to
jump the 70-point hurdle. an
“entrepreneur” needs. only’ 25
points, “He anly. aceds to be
breathing." .
Mendel Cireen, described by
Regaly as “a proneering luminary
inthe craft ot himigration lawyer-
ing” insteacted the gathering on
hw to get around rules that. give
Canadians priority in the job nut-

‘Green is also big, apparentiy, on:
“papering the immigration depart-
ment to death, You must always
become CREATIVE writers,” * (My

There was laughter, wrote.
Reguly, when Green said that in'w
court of law you must always tell’
the. truth, the whole-truth and notii-,
ing but the truth: “In immigration, '
Htell the: truth." ~ we

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What wasn't pointed out--was
that if we got rid of legal aid, half.’
of Canada's imsnigration problems
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