observer Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 A British passport holder who has lived in Canada for 27 years, was disabled by an accident while driving his lorry. Seems he'd been working on visas for all that time. Now, as a para-plegic, the Canadian Gov has decided he has become a drain on their benefits system and deported him back to the UK. The UK of course, wouldn't have been so callous (surprise, surprise). Who's right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 Canada......obviously they have more sense than we do over here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inky pete Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 Perhaps UK citizenship should be conditional on either residency or paying a certain amount of UK tax? Fail to satisfy either of those criteria for a certain period of time and you get stripped of your right to a UK passport. Wasn't there a case of a convicted murderer sent back from the US to Scotland last year? If I remember rightly, he hadn't set foot in the UK since his childhood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Kennedy Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 The conviction was overturned in a US court, he therefore ceased to be a convicted murderer, but rather somebody who was wrongly convicted of something he didn't do...... Happen to believe that any non UK citizen convicted in a UK court should be expelled from the UK after they have completed their sentence. We have enough of our home grown criminals without needing imports adding to the numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Kennedy Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 A British passport holder who has lived in Canada for 27 years, was disabled by an accident while driving his lorry. Seems he'd been working on visas for all that time. Now, as a para-plegic, the Canadian Gov has decided he has become a drain on their benefits system and deported him back to the UK. The UK of course, wouldn't have been so callous (surprise, surprise). Who's right? Maybe both are wrong , Canada for being callous, and the UK for being too compassionate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted January 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 Seems to me Canada are protecting their own interests, as do most countries except the UK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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