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$time for Canada io tell the world officially
how welcome illegal immigrants are here, and

how it's thal much better if they are crooks of

the violent sort.

Word does travel via the
grapevine, of course, but
any fair-minded person
would agree that that’s not
good enough, What is peed-
ed is a full-scale interna-
dional advertising campaign
to show everyone, regardless
of race or religion, that
crooks have nothing to fear
in this country, that there is
equal opportunity for all,
and that deportation is
nothing more chan fiction.

Fair shakes lor foreign
crooks, That's our motto,
and the sooner we proclaim
it in full-page notices in the

get this
straight

Doug Collins
2 EE

Peking Daily, the
Goergetown Gazette and the
Hindustani Times. the hap-
pier ! shall be.

These humanitarian
thoughts are inspired by two
cases that hit the public
prints recently down East.

The first one concerns a
black crook from the West
Indies who died at the hands
of the trigger-happy Toronto
police.

Leander Savoury (great
name, that) was only 21
years of age when he went to
meet his Maker, but was
known to his many friends
as Papa Lea. (Why he was
given this sobriquet is not
clear. [ft may fiave been
because he shared his drugs
with little kids.)

In 1980, Papa was
sentenced to jail for six years
on account of his habit of
using a gun to hold up gas
stations,

Four years later, when
Papa was being let out oan
parale, the immigration
department obtained a
deportation order agains!
him. (Those people know
nothing about policy. of
course, and are interested

HE'HEART::
/OF SOMEONE
YOU. KNOW.

only in giving this country a
bad name.) But Papa knew
what policy was. He appeal-
ed, and won a three-year
slay, which was ays good as
having the order torn up.

Eager to show society he
was gainfully employed,
Papa held up several gas sta-
tion in January, murdering
one attendant in the process.
Then one night, the cops
caught him in the act. He
pointed a sawed off shot-gun
at chem, and they sent him
to meet Rasta.

HW you ask me, Jamaica
should get an apology.

The second cause concerns
a native of Canton, who is
up for attempted murder
and whont we will call) Mr.
Hang Sin (his real name
probably being an invention
anyway, he having a fot of
initiative).

Mr. Sin jumped ship in
Vancouver in 1978. Two
years later he surfiteed in
Ontario, where he was work-
ing illegally as a short-order
clerk. He surrendered to
immigration (probably dur-
ing one of the many ‘make
our country your country’
amnesties for which we vet
top marks at the U.N.) But
the immigration people
decided Mr. Sin was up to
his eves in crookery rather
than cookery, and ordered
hinyout of the country too.

Before you could say Sin,
Hang had been ‘‘deported’*
to a U.S. border point and
re-admitied with a minister's
permit good for one year.
(Some people fave good
contacts.)

By 1983, Mr. Sin had a
number of criminal convic-
tios to his credit involving
prostitution and gambling.
Our national policy on
foreign crooks being what it
is, though, ] am pleased to
report that he had no trouble
obtaining more ministerial
permits to stay in Canada,
the last one expiring in June,
1984.

The attempted murder
charge resulted Srom  argu-
ments between Mr. Sin's
gang and another gang in
Toronto's Chinatown,

One can only hope that it
ail comes out inthe wash for
Nir. Sin. Without doubt, he
is an enterprising person and
creates employment i this
vountry, The courts, cops
and lawyers all have reason
to be grateful for his having
arrived,

With a proper advertising
campaign, the openings for
people dike Mr Sin and
Papa should be good. and
the benefits for Canada
poundless.

B.C. Heart
Foundation

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