Comments on: Will our government rescue us?

By: Chris Corrigan

Chris Corrigan — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:19:08 +0000

Section 10.1 talks about him being a threat to national security, of Canada or another nation. Seeing as Canada has cleared him of that, clearly it’s another nation. My bet is that Andorra is safe.

Poor guy…has he any hope of getting home? Is he now stateless? Has the UN no fly list effectively resulted in him being deprived of a UN sanctioned human right?

By: Alison

Alison — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:52:29 +0000

April 3, 2009
Department of Justice Canada
DFAIT Legal Services Unit

Dear Mr. Hameed:

Re: Mr. Abousfian Abdelrazik request for an emergency passport

Pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Canadian Passport Order the Minister of Foreign Affairs has decided to refuse your client’s request for an emergency passport.

Sincerely,
Donna Blois,
Council

By: Chris Corrigan

Chris Corrigan — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:29:41 +0000

That seems to square with appearances. At any rate, I still have not heard back from my MP after sending the email and leaving phone messages for him.

A big concern here is that Constitutional rights are being violated with no cause or justifcation. Apparently even the UN no-fly list has provisions for bringing people home to stand trial.

Section 6.1 of our Charter states that all Canadians have the right to enter, remain in and leave Canada, without any qualification on that right. So I think at this point, Abdelrazik has a strong human rights case on his hands, if he can ever get back here to make it.

For the rest of us that travel…the question still remains: under which conditions will the government safguard our rights and hold it’s Constitutional duty to citizens?

By: Jon Husband

Jon Husband — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:10:50 +0000

Did so .. was told by several people I know at DFAIT that the file was being directed out of the PMO’s office.

By: Jon Husband

Jon Husband — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:51:09 +0000

Outrageous. Not the country I want or believe in.

I will look up the mailing address of Sean Robertson and be writing (and mailing) a letter, once a week. Starting today.

By: Alison

Alison — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:16:45 +0000

Excellent letter, Chris.
If they can do this to Abdelrazik, they can do it to any of us.
This is the portion of the UN resolution that allows repatriation of citizens on the UN no-fly list :
UN resolution 1390, Section 2b: With respect to persons on the list, member states are obligated to “[p]revent the entry into or the transit through their territories of these individuals, provided that nothing in this paragraph shall oblige any State to deny entry into or require the departure from its territories of its own nationals and this paragraph shall not apply where entry or transit is necessary for the fulfilment of a judicial process or the Committee determines on a case by case basis only that entry or transit is justified.”

The man in charge of Abdelrazik’s file is :
Sean Robertson,
Director, Case Management Division Consular Services and Emergency Management Branch
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G2

By: Dr.Dawg

Dr.Dawg — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:14:26 +0000

Well done. I hope we can get a grassroots surge going on this.

Do you know about the Facebook group?

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=69034411293