Kelly O’Connor, an immigration lawyer in Toronto, said she gasped out loud when she saw the text. Any medical worker who denies care to someone hurt in a war zone is committing a “serious breach of the Geneva Convention,” she said in an interview.
“It’s completely outrageous that the government would ask these kinds of questions because it’s trying to promote that someone would violate the Geneva Conventions in wartime, which is really not something that the Canadian military stands for,” O’Connor said.
Vancouver-based immigration lawyer Randall Cohn said the questions in the letter are “patently illegal and absolutely egregious.” He has seen two such letters asking about medical treatment of Hamas members — sent to a doctor and a nurse — and he is aware of two more, he said in an interview.
The people who received these letters and brought them to lawyers were afraid to do it, Cohn said, because they worried they would be penalized by Canadian immigration officials. He wonders how many other people have received similar letters but haven’t shown them to anyone out of fear.
The federal Immigration Department said that an interview with its minister, Marc Miller, was not possible.
Look, it’s only a war crime if it’s done to “white people” (depending on your definition of white people, which Israelis seem to be at the moment, subject to change without notice)
Fuck the bureaucrats and fuck the government for allowing such utterly illegal questions be asked of immigrants.
Trudeau is gonna lose the next election, all because he seems to have misplaced his balls.
If someone participated in a war, we shouldn’t want them here.
Every single immigration form is trying to puzzle out if you are a member of a foreign military.
IDGAF if you worked with Hamas, ISIS, IDF, etc. You go to war, don’t expect to come here.
If someone participated in a war, we shouldn’t want them here.
Once more for people in the back.
Medics.
These are medics.
Coercing medics is a war crime.
Hamas is considered a terrorism organization by Canada. 70%+ of Palestiniens support Hamas. I don’t think it would be normal to not ask questions to Palestinians, especially what they did in Egypt and Jordan.
You wouldn’t want Hamas activism in Canada. Even if the Genocide must be stopped, Hamas still cold bloodily killed 1200 civilians.
Like, imagine having Hamas activism in Canada. They wouldn’t just protest. They would probably be much more violent.
