Dear Immigration Reformer:
In February, when Ernst Zundel was deported from the U.S.
to Canada, our fiery Wayne Newton look-alike Denis Coderre stuck his
Trudeauesque gunfighter pose and promised he'd take care of those abusing
or misusing our immigration system.
"Just watch me," he challenged.
Well, we're watching. What do we see? A fanatical effort
to deport Ernst Zundel, a 64-year old publisher who has never been
convicted of a crime in Canada. He remains in jail through the malice of
Coderre's department who, against all logic and history, insist this
German pacifist is some sort of violent terrorist and threat to national
security.
Meanwhile, Russian gangster Mark Bilalov is just one more
criminal we've welcomed into our midst. This violent criminal and home
invasion artist is wanted on four warrants, all flagging him as
"armed and dangerous." He was convicted of assault.
A clownish immigration spokesthingy offered the lame
excuse: "Maybe he didn't tell us he had a criminal record."
Mr. Coderre, we're watching. We see a corrupt, uncaring
department that fails to protect Canadians, that stands on guard for
special prvileged minorities, not for the Canadian Majority. In Coderre's
Canada, it's violent criminals in; thinkers and writers, out!
Paul Fromm Director
CANADA FIRST IMMIGRATION REFORM COMMITTEE
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Toronto Sun, May 28
A top holdup squad cop is furious that a man, arrested
this week in connection with a brutal home invasion, was recently granted
Canadian citizenship despite being wanted on four outstanding warrants.
When the Toronto Police holdup squad arrested the man
Monday, "he just laughed at us," Det.-Sgt. Wilf Townley told The
Toronto Sun yesterday. "He said we couldn't touch him because he was
now a Canadian citizen."
Townley said he was stunned yesterday by an Immigration
Canada official's response after he told her the man had four outstanding
arrest warrants issued by Toronto and York Regional police several months
before he became a Canadian in April. Each alert warned he was potentially
"armed and dangerous."
"She said, 'Maybe he didn't tell us he had a criminal
record,'" he said. "God help us!"
The immigration official said a check of the man's status
on the Canadian Police Intelligence Computer (CPIC) showed only two
charges laid since his arrival here in 1997, Townley said. Those cases,
alleging theft and fraud, "were withdrawn."
But the detective's own CPIC check quickly showed
"this guy is flagged everywhere for crime."
The man was convicted last year in Newmarket for assault
and uttering a death threat. The probation terms prohibited him from
possessing guns for five years and from driving, or even sitting, in the
driver's seat of a car.
Both before and after that conviction, police issued
warrants accusing the Russian native of breaching his court-ordered
release conditions from the Newmarket case, Townley said. But he had no
fixed address.
A second suspect in the home invasion was wanted in
connection with a deportation order.
On May 7, two men burst into a jeweller's home, beat him
with a weightlifter's dumbbell so badly that he needed 30 staples to close
his head wounds, Det. Ron Clifford said. "He was tortured to give the
combination to his store's alarm and give up the keys to the store on Lake
Shore Blvd."
Mark Bilalov, 26, of no fixed address, who recently became
a Canadian citizen, and Sergey Pashkurlatov, 32, are each charged with
robbery-home invasion and forcible confinement. They appear in court
today.
