The "CANADA" Charter Of Rights & Freedoms

Not the world charter so why do we hold the charter in such disdain that we extend these rights to people who have not shown any proof that they are worthy?

An unusually obstreperous Jeffrey Simpson argues that many of the administrative shortcomings Auditor-General Sheila Fraser appears to reveal in her reports are actually systemic issues. "We could double the number of officers hunting down illegals from the refugee pool or those who enter Canada on a visitor visas and then go underground, but we'd only increase by a few thousand the number we catch and deport," he writes in The Globe and Mail. The underlying problem is the granting of Charter rights to refugee claimants, he suggests, and the myriad "procedures, appeals and delays" go with it. It's all too easy for the opposition to bitch and moan about Fraser's findings, in other words, but "the system is the ass." Unfortunately, no government in Ottawa would risk the ire of "refugee lawyers, ethnic leaders, [and] church groups"—not to mention that selfsame opposition—to try to institute a systemic fix.