Popular Post Kerryd Posted September 27, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 27, 2022 I wonder how many other countries she may have also applied for asylum in but was rejected. Wouldn't be the first time Canada wasn't the first choice, but the last choice. Like those Filipinos that helped the traitor Snowden escape. They couldn't go home and applied to numerous countries for asylum including the UK, Australia and New Zealand. All turned them down. Canada was their 4th choice. Not because they thought the country was great but because they had run out of other options. Canada took them. Similar to Afghanistan. Canada left the country at the end of 2013. 8 years later the Taliban took control and suddenly everyone wanted to leave the country and suddenly people were howling that it was Canada's responsibility to grant refugee status to every Afghan that could say the word "Canada". Literally. During the 10 years I was in that country, we employed a few hundred locals on the different camps. And they didn't work for "Canada" but for 3rd party contractors. The number who actually worked for "Canada" was even less. Mostly interpreters and Embassy staff. However, in the last year, Canada has accepted over 17,000 Afghans who supposedly worked for Canada. And, according to various stories in the media, we are "failing" all the Afghanis who are still in the country or neighbouring Pakistan because we haven't brought all of them (however many 10s of thousands of them there are) to Canada as well (at Canadian expense of course). I suspect most of them had also worked for the UK, Australia and the USA, especially in the years after Canada pulled out, but probably didn't get accepted by those countries so tried again with Canada. The Liberals are a soft touch for anyone who isn't Canadian. The leader of the country (Justin Trudeau) even publicly stated that: "Immigrants make better Canadians." Implying that people who come to Canada because they can't get into the USA or other, better places, make "better Canadians" than those of us born and bred there. Even the terrorists who acquired Canadian citizenship and plotted to mass murder Canadians in terrorist attacks apparently "make better Canadians" than people born and raised in the country. (And when one of those terrorists had his citizenship stripped by a Conservative Prime Minister, the Liberal Prime Minister who replaced him made it a priority to restore that citizenship. You know, so that when he is released from prison, he can stay in Canada and maybe try again.) 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malibukid Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 when will Asia become truly democratic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkok Barry Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 4 hours ago, HaoleBoy said: Good to see Canada do this, BUT it might have meant more if one of the ASEAN nations had done this first! The collective ASEAN countries talk so much about how great they can be together (and in theory they can be), but with the various junta gov's in ASEAN they get little done. Compare the cooperation of ASEAN nations with cooperation between EU countries and there is no comparison. Very far from it. ASEAN is nothing more than a name for a collection of nations. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcusb Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 ???? Is it "baiting" when I post pro left on a pro right forum. ???? Just having fun, have a great day. ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcusb Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 57 minutes ago, edogthong said: Decent leadership? That's the first time I've ever heard anyone accuse Justin "Castro Blackface" of being decent. He's a protégé of Klaus Schwab and is spear heading the shift into tyranny in the western world. He froze bank accounts of protesters and even those supporting the protesters! The man (?) is pure evil. I've seen a lot of your posts. I am very happy that we have never had the same opinion. Cheers. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Kinok Powell Posted September 27, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 27, 2022 5 hours ago, marcusb said: Hats off to a great country with decent leadership, proud to be Canadian. ???? 2 out of 3 aint bad. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustinRacing Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 That's great. The only inconvenience is that I now have to move there too. Not a big fan of distant relationships! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTB1977 Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 Guessing they need some new blood for their very shallow gene pool. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Rising Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 59 minutes ago, Kerryd said: I wonder how many other countries she may have also applied for asylum in but was rejected. You could have just stopped there and saved us wasting valuable time reading the utter drivel that forms the rest of your post. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RT555 Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 Great country Myanmar, as an American I worked there opening restaurants in Yangon in 2012, met and worked with some of the friendliest people in the world. Military was in control for 50 years previously and opened back up in about 2011/12. when I first arrived there were sand bag piled up with soldiers with AK's, they disappeared after a year or so 2013....... a lot of memories.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mberbae Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 Quite a stain on the integrity of Thailand , to not grant the lady asylum themselves. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josephbloggs Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 14 minutes ago, mberbae said: Quite a stain on the integrity of Thailand , to not grant the lady asylum themselves. She didn't apply for asylum in Thailand. Should they just randomly grant it to people at the airport? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post josephbloggs Posted September 27, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 27, 2022 2 hours ago, Olav Seglem said: Thailand here had a given chance to make a stand, and-one more time- made the wrong one..... Shame on you, thailand.. To be fair, she didn't ask for asylum in Thailand. I think Thailand did OK in this situation, she had been freely spending a lot of time in the country criticising her government (rightly) but this time was - allegedly - stopped on entry due to an Interpol notice. They didn't arrest her, she wasn't in confinement, even though Myanmar asked for her to be arrested and sent back and apparently even sent police to the airport. The Thai authorities didn't cave in and let her be repatriated to Canada. The Thailand of old would have sent her straight back to Myanmar when asked, no question. I actually see this as a positive step for the country. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srikcir Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 Maybe her seeking asylum in Thailand was a misunderstanding. In Thailand there are hummus rights that might have been translated to human rights. What surprises me is no known offer from South Korea, Malaysia, Australia, etc. I recall that "Ontario's Burmese community called for more action from Canada following Myanmar coup" (2/5/2021). www.cbc.ca/news/Canada/Toronto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liverpool Lou Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 6 hours ago, HaoleBoy said: Good to see Canada do this, BUT it might have meant more if one of the ASEAN nations had done this first! Perhaps she requested asylum in Canada and didn't want it in an Asean country? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennw Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 6 hours ago, HaoleBoy said: Good to see Canada do this, BUT it might have meant more if one of the ASEAN nations had done this first! The collective ASEAN countries talk so much about how great they can be together (and in theory they can be), but with the various junta gov's in ASEAN they get little done. <deleted> weak Thailand not standing to the junta in Burma maybe $$$$$$ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liverpool Lou Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, spidermike007 said: One cannot but notice that no offers were forthcoming from any member of ASEAN. Scared of Burma and China are we? She requested Canada, Asean countries are probably too close for comfort. Edited September 27, 2022 by Liverpool Lou 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiman Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 Good for her! Hope she has a great life in Canada 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liverpool Lou Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 2 hours ago, Kerryd said: I wonder how many other countries she may have also applied for asylum in but was rejected. Through the UNHCR she requested asylum in Canada. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metisdead Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 An off topic post about asylum seekers to the UK has been removed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liverpool Lou Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 1 hour ago, mberbae said: Quite a stain on the integrity of Thailand , to not grant the lady asylum themselves. She requested asylum in Canada, not Thailand, so no stain, Thailand is spotless in this case much to the chagrin of all the Thai-bashers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Mullard Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 5 hours ago, hellohello123 said: Moral of the story Say/do something controversial, get your country to hate you, seek asylum in a better country, instant visa Moral of the story? Forgive me but you sound as if you've no idea what's going down in that <deleted> hell-hole Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Mullard Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 4 hours ago, Olav Seglem said: Thailand here had a given chance to make a stand, and-one more time- made the wrong one..... Shame on you, thailand.. Thank God someone has called out Thailand. What a morally perverse country. Unless anyone can explain their position on human rights in this matter further? If the woman has extended family... God help them. The stuff circulating online is not for the faint-hearted. It needs to be seen though by all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metisdead Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 Some off topic posts have been removed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Robsweblinks Posted September 27, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 27, 2022 9 hours ago, marcusb said: Hats off to a great country with decent leadership, proud to be Canadian. ???? You must be living in a different country, Trudeau has <deleted> it up. Check out stats on how many people are leaving. He's a narcissist who likes how China is run in his own words. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donga Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 Think many posters are missing the point that Thailand quietly assisted the lady to gain asylum, rather than return her to Myanmar, as their leader requested. Good to see some give kudos to Thailand, in contrast to knee jerk Thai bashing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josephbloggs Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 37 minutes ago, Donga said: Think many posters are missing the point that Thailand quietly assisted the lady to gain asylum, rather than return her to Myanmar, as their leader requested. Good to see some give kudos to Thailand, in contrast to knee jerk Thai bashing. Yes, the people who can read all reached the same conclusion as you.. The automatic bashers made the opposite one. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bristolgeoff Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 I can say that she got a break from the canadiens,fair play to them.But i imagine she had a few choices as well where to go.I Imagine thailand or asia was a bit to close for her to claim asylum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pegman Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 6 hours ago, edogthong said: Canada under Trudeau is totalitarian. He stopped people from free travel and called them Nazis. He froze their bank accounts for simply protesting. That would not happen in a free, democratic society. Nope, no Nazis there, 555 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ftpjtm Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 ????To Canada for granting asylum. ????To Thailand for not granting asylum, but also allowing her to take refuge from the Myanmar authorities. ????To the US for being able to accommodate 1,800 per day across the southern border to take "refuge" from low wages, but unable to find space for 1 person who's situation meets the textbook definition of asylum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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