I’m feeling very reflective this Xmas Eve. May I?
Cathy Buckle sent me a copy of her Zimbabwe’s Timeless Beauty and I’d placed it right next to a photograph I’ve kept of a woman from Darfur.
Cathy is helping the women around her in Zimbabwe so it’s appropriate this subject came up. I’m happy to be counted among her supporters. The book and the photo carried me back….
From 1998 to 2006, I had the tremendous privilege of serving as a quasi-judge – a refugee adjudicator. Our decisions were regarded as usually untouchable as far as country conditions went – they were deferred to on matters specific to country conditions – but reviewable by the Federal Court on matters of law.
I say that to set the scene of a hearing room. It’s a court of law in all but name. And it has in its hands the fate of a man, woman, or child who, if I get it wrong, is on their way back to torture, rape, and murder. (1)
So you can bet your boots I’m gonna get it right. And the benefit of the doubt goes to the claimant, even though I know that some, and perhaps even many, economic migrants might get through. (2)
One day I came across this photograph of a woman from Darfur and it captured in an image the essence of our work as refugee decision-makers. I weep a bucket of tears every time I look at it. I hate how powerless I am that I can’t do something about the situation. (Go, Reval!)
Below it are the last words spoken in a successful refugee claim: “…and I extend to you Canada’s protection.” Those were the words that every claimant was waiting to hear.
Those were the last days in which Members of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada had a semblance of independence as decision-makers. After that, it went downhill until it became, not an independent panel at all, but an administrative unit of the government.
I don’t believe there could be independence of decision-making after that. Currying favor with the government would be the rule, which turns out to be following what is now revealed as a corrupt deep-state course.
I was so hopeful when I joined the IRB. I was so proud and determined to do the best possible job. For the first while, I put between me and the claimant a gift my wife had given me as a reminder: The scales of justice as a timepiece.
But the whittling of independence did not stop.
Justin Trudeau is reported to be under house arrest. (3) Once wearing an ankle monitor, he’s since said to have been microchipped. We have not heard publicly of the worst of the atrocities occurring in Canada – and we will. If not in the ten days of broadcasts, then afterwards. Now does not seem the time for it.
Trudeau seems to have been allowed to act out the World Economic Forum’s wishes, to wake up the people of Canada – which he’s succeeding in doing. Klaus Schwab can no longer be pulling his strings. Schwab was reported to have died while in adrenochrome withdrawal at Gitmo. (4) Who’s leading the WEF into oblivion I don’t know.
But probably whoever it is will also be taken down in the mass arrests that are being carried out as we speak. As will their agents in the Canadian government.
Next summer the Freedom Convoy can converge on Ottawa and celebrate!
By the way, I totally support President Trump in asking Canada to take the northern border more seriously and do a lot more to stop fentanyl, illegal migrants, etc. We shouldn’t need to be spoken to like a truant child to act on important neighborly matters like these.
We are children of a common political heritage who’ve fought wars together side by side. I think Canadians can hear a little criticism and act on it out of good fellowship.
Merry Christmas everyone! Thank you to all our beloved family of readers for making us a part of your life! We are so honored.
Footnotes
(1) We now know that it could be on the road to sexual slavery and worse.
(2) I know and they know that very few people get sent back to their native country. The refugee process, in this respect, is only slowing immigration down a bit. But there’s often a downside that goes along with a tremendous upside and the existence of a refugee assistance program, I think, is a great blessing overall to everyone concerned. The satisfaction is much akin to Search and Rescue – the saving of a life.
(3) Justin Trudeau is reported under house arrest in Medeea Greere, “Gitmo Update/Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp Arrests…,” AMG-News, Oct. 27, 2024, at https://amg-news.com/gitmo-update-guantanamo-bay-detention-camp-arrests-indictments-and-executions-for-thousands-of-new-ex-elite-prisoners-official-documents/.
(4) Michael Baxter, “JAG Pulls Plug on Klaus Schwab,” Real Raw News, April 26,2024, at https://realrawnews.com/2024/04/jag-pulls-plug-on-klaus-schwab.
