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Newspaper Article
A shadowy side to our national character
1989
Overview
The truth is, the new refugee laws cater to a shadow side of our national character; a side that, not so long ago, refused entry to Jewish refugees flying from Nazi terror, imposed head taxes and other indignities on Chinese newcomers, and arranged for the first engagement of the Canadian navy in 1914 to be the repelling of a boatload of 400 East Indians from Vancouver, to the cheers of thousands on the docks. [Nancy Pocock]'s intervention has developed into a national network called Vigil. Vigil is not interested in protecting bogus claimants. But in carefully chosen cases, researched with Amnesty International and backed up by personal knowledge, telephone trees are activated, demonstrators appear at detention centres or immigration offices, messages arrive on the immigration minister's desk. Vigil members, as the name suggests, won't go away: they keep watch on a harsh no-appeal system which risks rejecting genuine refugees. The Vigil tradition is an old one in Canada; when terrified people huddle outside the house, what they need most is simply to be let in.
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Torstar Syndication Services, a Division of Toronto Star Newspapers Limited
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