Let them stay in 2012!
resisters on Jan 6th 2012
As the campaign to win asylum for U.S. Iraq War resisters enters its ninth year, there is much that has been accomplished but much that we must still fight for. The majority of Canadians want an end to deportations of Iraq War resisters, yet the Canadian government has succeeded in deporting two, Robin Long and Cliff Cornell. Twice in the past three years, a majority of Parliament voted to oppose deportations and to support a provision that would allow war resisters to stay in Canada. Yet Minister of Immigration Jason Kenney has instituted a discriminatory policy Operational Bulletin 202 that criminalizes Iraq war resisters.
With Parliament set to return on January 31st, the War Resisters Support Campaign is calling on supporters to email the Minister of Immigration, as well as individual MPs, to demand that Operational Bulletin 202 be rescinded.
Below is a message from Don Davies, Immigration critic for the official opposition, in support of Iraq War resisters:
