I was reading the below paper, and papers, as it proved to me that Canada support dictator by allowing the dictators to invest in Canada, and use Canada for their good times.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Members+Tunisia+family+Canada+residents+minister/4153918/story.html
The relatives of ousted Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali who arrived in Canada are permanent residents and not asylum-seekers, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said yesterday.
Kenney, attending a Conservative party meeting in Ottawa, said some members of Ben Ali's family "are permanent residents" and "have the right to be in Canada."
He spoke days after one of Ben Ali's many brothers-in-law arrived in Montreal aboard a private jet accompanied by his wife, their children and a governess, according to news reports confirmed by a government official.
Ben Ali's wife Leila Trabelsi has several brothers, and the official declined to say which one had arrived in Canada. The family reportedly checked into a hotel in Montreal.
A spokesman for a Montrealbased group formed to support Tunisians who have risen up against Ben Ali's government told The Gazette he was dismayed to hear that Canada had allowed his relatives into the country.
"We're very disappointed that Canada has accepted these people who are directly related to the dictatorship and to the family that has been ruling Tunisia for the past 23 years," said Haroun Bouazzi, of the Collectif de solidarite au Canada avec les luttes sociales en Tunisie.
Bouazzi, who was born and raised in Tunisia but has lived in Canada for the past 11 years, said the Canadian government should have refused entry to Ben Ali's family even if they were carrying the proper documentation.
"When Ben Ali left Tunisia, he was still president, and countries like Malta and France didn't accept him even then," he said. "Countries always have a choice to be on the side of the Tunisian people."
An official at Citizenship and Immigration Canada said Saturday that Ottawa was not offering asylum to Ben Ali's family.
Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia this month after weeks of violent protests against his iron fisted rule.
Yesterday, hundreds of Tunisians defied a night-time curfew and camped out in front of Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi's office in a bid to force the government to resign.
Protesters said the revolt against Ben Ali has not gone far enough and should be followed up by the removal of all old-regime figures from the leadership and the abolition of Ben Ali's powerful RCD party.
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