Since the Tiananmen Square massacre, human rights in China have been repeatedly violated.
Yesterday, representatives of agencies defending Chinese refugees in Montreal expressed their outrage at the government's decision to review the status of 4,500 Chinese nationals living in Canada under the threat of deportation to their native country.
It has been announced that the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration will make a final resolution on these cases this summer.
According to information gathered by the newspaper Voir , of the 827 cases reviewed by the Immigration and Refugee Board since the Tiananmen Square massacre, 663 applications, or a full 80 per cent, have been rejected.
Under the circumstances, the minister's stalling tactics are unacceptable.
Once again, the government is making a mockery of human rights and giving in to this simplistic approach whereby if one wants to do business, one turns a blind eye to fundamental rights.