Canada needs to have a system in place that all civilized nations have

The legislation to reform the system by providing failed applicants the right to appeal the merits of their case arrived within hours after being approved in the Parliament this summer. The reforms that are been made since seven years did not happen.

Thus, Canada remains one among the few industrialized nations that do not have a refugee appeal division.

The Block Quebecois MP who proposed Bill C-280 Nicole Demers said that she is absolutely determined to see this legislation through this fall, election or not. Despite the government’s position that ‘it isn’t necessary’, she and NDP immigration critic Olivia Chow, backed up by national and international refugee advocate groups, will vote for trying to get a vote scheduled very soon, if the Parliament reconvenes the legislation.

Demers said that it is very important that all people have access to an appeal. She said that Canada has been told that they are lacking behind the United Nations by a big margin.

Milan Matik won a “bench positive”. This meant that his claim was approved last month at the time when immigration minister Diane Finley was in Prague and warning Czech officials to stop the increasing Czech refugee claims.

The 22-year old bricklayer was hospitalized after increasing beatings from skinheads in high school and at work as well. In a manner in which most Roma are treated, he was also put in an elementary school for the mentally challenged. Milan said in a dull tone that now he understood as to why his father, Doric left. Doric, who fled beatings and persecution in the Czech Republic, said that things haven’t changed and the family can never forget the racism they have lived with.

Max Berger, the immigration minister who represented the father and the son and their refugee claims criticized the announcements made by Finley in Prague. He said that Finley gives the impression that the Roma are fake refugees but the fact is that she should have instructed the Czech Republic to instead take better care of the Roma Community.

Since long, Canada has consistently been criticized by the Amnesty International and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees for not giving a chance to the asylum seekers to appeal. The UN said that among all the industrialized nations, Canada, Italy and Poland are the only countries that do not allow an appeal.

Abraham Abraham, the UNCHR representative in Canada said that it is difficult to protect refugees but that is something that all the civilized nations do.