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Originally Posted by Phanuthier
I saw in my digging that the Ms Martin's lawyer (?) was requesting PM Harper to ask him to raise the threat level for Mexico due to this incident, but PM Harper didn't want to make waves. I think that would be a baby step in the right direction, and they arn't even willing to do that. Seriously, whats it going to take? Someone terrorizing Paul Martin's ship company in Panama?
That is what I have a problem with. Grow some balls, Canadian politicans. We sent hundreads of tourests down to Mexico to keep their economy on life support; I realize there is that whole Canadians-falling-off-balcony's things going on, but this really bothers me because a women is suffering down there for a crime she did not commit. That could be any of us right there - she did no wrong, she's just an average traveller like you or me going to a very well-travelled country that I'm sure most Canadians have gone to in the past 5 years.
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I agree that she did no wrong and should be free, given the information I have seen. But I wouldn't want to see the government raise the threat-level because one person gets into trouble after she chooses to live in another country and ends up working for a criminal. It isn't fair to compare her with an average tourist. If someone innocently starts working for a multi-million dollar mobster in Canada or the US, they could end up in significant trouble here as well if they were to leave on bad terms.
On the other hand, I would support raising the threat level to Mexico. The reason why, is that this type of thing is commonplace. As an example,
check this out. I had lunch with the man in the picture the day that picture was taken. He didn't have blood on his shirt nor the gash in his forehead at lunchtime.