Myanmar beauty queen granted asylum in Canada

[Kerryd]

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.)

[malibukid]

when will Asia become truly democratic?

[Bangkok Barry]

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.

[marcusb]

???? Is it "baiting" when I post pro left on a pro right forum. ???? 

Just having fun, have a great day.  ???? 

[marcusb]

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. 

[Kinok Powell]

5 hours ago, marcusb said:

Hats off to a great country with decent leadership, proud to be Canadian. ???? 

2 out of 3 aint bad.

[AustinRacing]

That's great. The only inconvenience is that I now have to move there too. Not a big fan of distant relationships!

[BTB1977]

Guessing they need some new blood for their very shallow gene pool. LOL

[Phoenix Rising]

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.

[RT555]

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....

[mberbae]

Quite a stain on the integrity of Thailand , to not grant the lady

asylum themselves. 

[josephbloggs]

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?

[josephbloggs]

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.

[Srikcir]

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

 

 

[Liverpool Lou]

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?

[kennw]

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 $$$$$$  

[Liverpool Lou]

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.

[chiman]

Good for her!  Hope she has a great life in Canada 

[Liverpool Lou]

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.

[metisdead]

An off topic post about asylum seekers to the UK has been removed

[Liverpool Lou]

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.

[Arthur Mullard]

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 

[Arthur Mullard]

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.

[metisdead]

Some off topic posts have been removed.

[Robsweblinks]

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.

[Donga]

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. 

[josephbloggs]

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.

[bristolgeoff]

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

[pegman]

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

[ftpjtm]

????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.