RCMP and Charlottetown Police work to keep the peace both at home and as members of United Nations teams Globally. Bravo Zulu to the men and women of the RCMP and Charlottetown force.
Photo by Guardian Staff.
Constable Tom Butler and Cpl Leanne Butler of RCMP Detachments on PEI and Constables Ross Davies and Darren MacDougall of the Charlottetown Police services.
Receiving their UN Peacekeeping coin at a ceremony in Charlottetown 2 other RCMP Members and an additional 2 Charlottetown Police officers received the award. Unfortunately no photo available.. These men and women are living proof that Canada does indeed assist the world in ways other than military. RCMP Officers have and or are currently serving in Namibia,Haiti,Afghanistan, the UK as well as the Local Police officers from canada serving in Afghanistan, Tanzania and various other places that they are needed for their expertise.
Constable Davies spoke at the Red Rally in June about his experiences in Afghanistan. Thank you again from Canada.
Now for my Rant:
U.S. war deserter given another stay of removal this is a headline from the CBC.
A Federal Court judge issued another temporary stay of removal Tuesday for a U.S. war deserter facing deportation from Canada, ruling immigration officials did not properly weigh whether she would face more severe prosecution for speaking out publicly against the Iraq war.
Rivera served in Iraq with the American military in 2006 and moved to Canada the following year after she refused deployment.
She arrived in the country from Texas with her husband and two children and gave birth to a third child in Canada in November 2008.
Her request to stay in Ontario on humanitarian and compassionate grounds was denied, but Rivera was granted a temporary stay of removal in March.
In his ruling Tuesday in Ottawa, Justice James Russell said an officer from Citizenship and Immigration Canada who performed a pre-removal risk assessment of Rivera did not consider whether she and other outspoken Iraq war objectors would face targeted prosecution based upon their political opinion.
In my view, the officers failure to fully address the targeting issue, and the evidence that supports the applicants' position, renders the decision unreasonable and it must be returned for reconsideration, Russell wrote in his decision.
A new pre-removal risk assessment of Rivera could take up to four months, according to Ken Marciniec of the War Resisters Support Campaign.
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney's office said it was reviewing Russell's decision.
I find it hard to believe the Obama administration persecutes its citizens, Kenney's spokesman Alykhan Velshi wrote in an email to CBC News on Tuesday.
A minster of the Liberal party has stated the following:
Mr. Kenney knows full well that the American military continue the policy of stop-loss compelling service after contracts have ended and other forms of compulsion, Kennedy wrote.
Most important, he is offside with the majority of Parliament and Canadians who believe conscientious resisters to the Iraq war should be able to become Canadian citizens.
This term Conscientious Resister cannot be given to a military member who voluntarily joined the services of their own Country The key word being VOLUNTEER. This woman was not drafted nor was she press ganged she chose to serve her country. Her country happens to be an ally of Canada and at the risk of repeating myself she should be arrested by the Military Police of Canada and trabsferred immediately to US Military police as a desserter.
On another deportation of a Cuban woman from Burnaby to Cuba. I am curious as to why a US citizen ie:Desserter can apply to stay when the Cuban family entered from the USA as well and are refused??
Couple fled Cuba The family came to Canada in 2004 from Miami where they lived and had Noris and her brother Alex, 12, after fleeing Cuba in 1993.
The couple were awarded work permits but because they had actually entered Canada from the U.S., they were not eligible for refugee status, Noris said.
Finally as another young Canadian soldier was laid to rest in Quebec on Tuesday.Funeral services were held Tuesday at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier for Cpl. Christian Bobbitt who was killed by a roadside explosion in Afghanistan on Aug. 1.
Bobbitt, 23, was killed along with Sapper Mathieu Allard, 21, in the Zhari district west of Kandahar, while working to find and defuse bombs.
Veteran Mario Soucy served with the 5th Combat Engineers Regiment, the same regiment Bobbitt eventually joined.Col. Jean-Marc Lanthier said Bobbitt's job was the most dangerous on the ground in Afghanistan.
Soucy said it takes a particular kind of soldier to do the dangerous work of defusing explosives.
Please remember all of our troops and police, while this desserter wants special status as a coward.
Tomorrow is Red Friday please show your support to our guys and gals.
Nil Sine Labore
Robby
