Fantastic news for people who hate to hear people with scary for’gn accents when they’re buying 1.5kg bags of Great Value-brand Sour Cream & Onion potato chips: Vic Toews, perhaps the Canadian public’s last true champion, is keeping your shopping experience safe, by basically refusing to stop the hilariously unfair deportation of two international students at the University of Regina who got jobs at Walmart without realizing it’s illegal for them to do so.
It’s worth actually reading the initial story; current immigration laws allow international students to hold jobs on campuses, but forbid them from getting off-campus work. (Would this be a problem if international students’ tuition wasn’t, on average, more than double the average Canadian student’s tuition fees? It is difficult to say.) But two University of Regina students, Victoria Ordu and Ihuoma Amadi, didn’t realize this, and got themselves jobs working at a Walmart. The Canadian Border Service agency found out and did the only reasonable thing they could given the circumstances, which was to come into Walmart, lead the offending women away in handcuffs, and ask them subtly racist questions:
[Immigration consultant Kay] Adebogun would like to see a reversal in the decision to deport Ordu and Amadi, but he also thinks there are bigger issues at play with how the two were treated.
Of particular concern, he says, is the fact both students were asked by CBSA workers for names of other Nigerian students who were working and even if they knew anybody in a gang.
Swell detective work, all around.
The fate of the two students is not particularly popular, and since I’ve buried the lede pretty well here I’ll just skip right to where Vic Toews comes in:
Toews is refusing to comment on the matter, but a spokeswomam from his office said in an emailed statement, “A key part of CBSA’s mandate is to remove those who violate Canada’s immigration laws as soon as possible. Everyone ordered removed from Canada is entitled to due process before the law. This case is no different. Thousands of students come to Canada each year to study. The student visa system can only function if those students who receive visas respect and adhere to the conditions of their visa, such as remaining in school and only working as permitted by their visas.”
Hahaha, is there any bigger “fuck-you” Toews could have possibly put out as a public statement? “NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAW,” one pictures Toews thundering, his moustache bristling with fury at the thought of two people for whom English is their second language and immigration law somewhere well below that receiving even an ounce of lenience for having made a mistake that, in fact, one of them even realized she’d made and immediately quit her illegal job. Even more hilarious is the fact that Toews himself couldn’t be bothered to comment on a deportation of two young people that the public is not receiving very well; he had a lackey send out an email. Thanks for showing us you care, Vic!
(Incidentally, immigration minister Jason Kenney has neither made himself available for comment on this particular case nor confirmed or denied that he has a normal human skeleton and nervous system, so we are legally allowed to call him “spineless,” now.)
In other news, while it is worth Canadian taxpayer dollars to deport the absolute hell out of a couple of African kids who wanted a minimum-wage job that is readily available to anyone who wants to work it, the 20 non-Christian chaplains currently working part-time in Canada’s prisons is a horrible waste of whatever tiny fraction of the $6.4 million spent on the program annually that Muslim and Jewish and First Nations chaplains make up, and so they are now going to lose their jobs. Vic Toews is looking out for you, Canada!
via:Leader-Post image: Flickr
Comments are closed.