Apparently, right now in our country, if you travel abroad and your skin isn't pearly white, or robustly pink (Why did Brenda Martin get a private jet ride out of a fetid Mexican jail, again?), you stand the chance of being denied return to your country of citizenship, the country whose passport you hold. What other conclusion can one reach after the abysmal treatment given Ms. Mahomud? Or Mr. Abdelrazik. Or Mr. Mahar.
Or whomever else may be guilty of the newest (yet un-announced) trespass against Canadian law n' order: Traveliing While Brown.
Of course, ignorance of the law is no excuse. We should all have become aware of 2nd-tier citizenship provisions having been apparently enshrined when the last Israel-Lebanon skirmish occurred. You will recall that Canadian Citizens in Lebanon at the time of the conflict were left to fend for themselves until the current government was pressed to fulfill their (our) obligations to them.
Now that Ms. Mahomud has been returned to her 12-year old son here in Canada, checked for infirmities contracted while detained, she's announced that she will proceed with litigation v. Regina.
Here's what some of our fellow citizens have to say about that. Kinda off-putting, I know.
That noted, one hopes she succeeds in her legal adventure, lest all or any of us set foot out of the country proudly carrying a precious document which has been dangerously devalued by the actions, or lack thereof, of those currently in government.
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