Ten-year-old girl requests Harper to allow her family live in Canada

A little girl, Betty Chen, wanted to give a letter to the Prime Minister yesterday but she was unable to get past the security.

The ten year old Toronto girl trekked out to Ajax along with her family in heavy rain in order to somehow get the attention of the Conservative leader and avoid the deportation of the family to China.

Thirty-six year old Ming Chen and thirty-three year old Zhen Chen, her dad and mom respectively, came to Canada in the year 1998 and made a failed refugee claim. They said that they were fleeing the one-child policy of China.

Both of them work in Toronto, with Ming working as a butcher and Zhen as a Dim-Sum.

According to the report in the last weekā€™s Sunday Sun, the family, which comprises of the couple along with their three Canadian-born children Betty, 10, Wendy, 3 and 4-month old son Raymond, is facing deportation.

The family was out on the sidewalk in front of Harperā€™s Conservative rally and were wearing matching shirts that read- let the Chen family stay in Canada.

The Chen family is desperate to stay in Canada because of they are deported to China, they will face a $485,000 fine for having three children and will have to pay for school and health care for each additional child. In order to go to school in China, the kids will also have to give up their Canadian citizenship.

So Betty, a Grade 5 student, wrote a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper asking him to allow her to stay her in the only country she has ever known- Canada. Betty said that everything is nice over here and she does not want to leave the place.

In her letter that begins as ā€œDear Stephen Harperā€, she wrote that she has been informed by her parents that they have to go back to China but Canada is the place where she was born.

Betty further wrote that of she goes back to China then she will loose her Canadian citizenship which she does not want. She also wrote that she does not want any of her family members to leave Canada and added a genuine ā€˜pleaseā€™ at the end of the sentence. She ended the letter with a polite ā€˜thank youā€™.

The familyā€™s immigration consultant, Roy Kellogg, said that the government cannot continue to remove people like this. All this shows that Harper does not care for these people, he added.