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Oh the hypocrisy. When Trump and America does it, the Canadian government speak out and Canadians protest in the streets. When it is conducted by good old, sweet, gentle Canada, to a man who has been here since he was 8 months old (??!! wow), there is silence.
This is really the Canadian Way, smile in your face, stab you in the back when you turn away. Tell a number of B.S stories and point fingers at how diabolical other nations are, and then quietly engage in the same activities or worse, while trying to avoid media coverage (they obviously failed in this case, a rogue reporter at state run CBC).
Furthermore, he has a mental illness, a subject which Canada and particularly PM Trudeau have apparently been big proponents of addressing. For political points it seems.
Maybe some of the Snowflakes out of California and New York will head over to Canada and protest with the same zeal and passion for this 59 year old man, or maybe not...
Man with bipolar disorder deported to Netherlands after nearly 6 decades in Canada
A 59-year-old B.C. man who had lived in Canada since he was a baby has been deported to the Netherlands because of his criminal offences, which he says were due to his mental illness.
"This is the only home I've ever known," Len Van Heest said in a tearful interview Monday at Vancouver International Airport. "And they're kicking me out now.
"They're sending me to a foreign country, they're taking my mom away from me, all my friends. I'm devastated."
Van Heest moved to Canada with his parents when he was eight months old and the country is the only home he has ever known. His mother has said not getting him Canadian citizenship was an oversight on her part.
Van Heest was first ordered deported in January 2008 after he was found inadmissible to stay in Canada because of a 2001 conviction for assault with a weapon.
His is one of several cases in which immigrants face removal after the previous Conservative government toughened laws regarding the deportation of non-citizen criminals, his lawyer Peter Golden said in an earlier interview with CBC.
According to court documents, he was convicted of more than 40 criminal charges between 1976 and 2013. He was denied permanent Canadian residency because of his criminal record.
Van Heest said his crimes were the result of bipolar disorder, which he developed as a teenager. He served nine months for assault, but said he's in control of his mental illness now and doesn't drink or do drugs.
This is really the Canadian Way, smile in your face, stab you in the back when you turn away. Tell a number of B.S stories and point fingers at how diabolical other nations are, and then quietly engage in the same activities or worse, while trying to avoid media coverage (they obviously failed in this case, a rogue reporter at state run CBC).
Furthermore, he has a mental illness, a subject which Canada and particularly PM Trudeau have apparently been big proponents of addressing. For political points it seems.
Maybe some of the Snowflakes out of California and New York will head over to Canada and protest with the same zeal and passion for this 59 year old man, or maybe not...
Man with bipolar disorder deported to Netherlands after nearly 6 decades in Canada
A 59-year-old B.C. man who had lived in Canada since he was a baby has been deported to the Netherlands because of his criminal offences, which he says were due to his mental illness.
"This is the only home I've ever known," Len Van Heest said in a tearful interview Monday at Vancouver International Airport. "And they're kicking me out now.
"They're sending me to a foreign country, they're taking my mom away from me, all my friends. I'm devastated."
Van Heest moved to Canada with his parents when he was eight months old and the country is the only home he has ever known. His mother has said not getting him Canadian citizenship was an oversight on her part.
Van Heest was first ordered deported in January 2008 after he was found inadmissible to stay in Canada because of a 2001 conviction for assault with a weapon.
His is one of several cases in which immigrants face removal after the previous Conservative government toughened laws regarding the deportation of non-citizen criminals, his lawyer Peter Golden said in an earlier interview with CBC.
According to court documents, he was convicted of more than 40 criminal charges between 1976 and 2013. He was denied permanent Canadian residency because of his criminal record.
Van Heest said his crimes were the result of bipolar disorder, which he developed as a teenager. He served nine months for assault, but said he's in control of his mental illness now and doesn't drink or do drugs.
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