David’s Blog: Too Long a Wait to Immigrate

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Published on March 1st, 2016 at 01:53pm EST Updated on September 4th, 2020 at 12:21pm EDT

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A recent article in the Toronto Star highlighted the case of Marcelina Gilles, a Filipino-Canadian who has been waiting 17 years to reunite with her husband and three children in Canada.

Seventeen years. Do you remember what was going on in 1999? It was the year of Y2K fear and a long time before your first smart phone. It was the year when Bill Clinton, still president of our neighbour to the south, came to Ottawa to dedicate the new Embassy of the United States in Canada.

In short, it was a long, long time ago. >>Read more . . .

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