[jolinar of malkshor]

Originally Posted by Daradon

I'm asking a deeper (funnier?) question. What makes a Canadian? Is it oozing out of your mom on Canadian soil? Or is it actually standing up for principles we hold dear.

This has nothing to do with being Canadian.

He probably does deserve to be deported. But is it worth this big fight and negative publicity? No. More over, his only crime was to come here illegally and we don't know why he did that. There could be good reasons for it, there could be bad reasons for it. We don't know.

Yes it is worth a big fight. If you don't follow through with the consequences then you might aswell not have any consequences. And there wasn't good reasons for it otherwise the IRB would have accepted his claim as a refuge. Canada accepts about 50% of all refugees that make a claim, so he must not have had a really good claim.

There are many brave people that come here illegally (and other countries) to escape all sorts of bad situations. You can bet your ass I'd risk everything I had to get out of certain situations and countries. We don't know how good we have it.

Fine, no one is arguing that people want to make there life better and do what it takes to make it better. But if you come to Canada under false pretences and break the law at the same time then you must suffer the consequences.

Can people abuse the system? Sure? But do we know he has? No. So far the biggest argument I've heard is that it's cost lots to keep him here. Which is cold hearted.

Yes, he did abuse the system. Instead of coming to Canada the right way, like most people do, he decided to jump the line. How do you explain to the actual refugee sitting in a refugee camp with absolutly nothing "sorry little johnny, we were going to take you as a conventional refugee but because Mr. Singh decided that he was more of a refugee than you, and that he had the ability to buy a fake passport and a plane ticket to Canada, we just can't accept you this year because we have already spent close to half a million dollars on his fraudulent claim. If you are still alive next year johnny we may look at your case again as long as another Mr. Singh doesn't try to pull the same Sh*t.