Dr. Alexandra Bain, the chief director for Households In opposition to Violent Extremism, which tried to help the ladies, stated the clock was ticking
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4 girls trapped in a Syrian jail camp who say World Affairs Canada will not allow them to be a part of their Canadian youngsters immigrating right here now have a Calgary lawyer advocating for them.
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Felony lawyer Yoav Niv stated Monday he has been requested to assemble a authorized workforce to assist the ladies be a part of their youngsters’s repatriation to Canada.
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And dr. Alexandra Bain, the chief director for Households In opposition to Violent Extremism, which tried to help the ladies, stated the clock was ticking.
Bain stated the moms, who between them have 10 Canadian youngsters, had been instructed final Thursday by a consultant of World Affairs Canada that they’d per week and a half to resolve whether or not to ship their youngsters to a greater life right here with out them need to ship
“They had been instructed by the Canadian authorities in a video convention assembly final week that they won’t be able to return to Canada with their youngsters,” Bain instructed Postmedia.
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“They got the selection … to both let their youngsters return to Canada themselves, or allow them to rot within the camp the place they at the moment reside.”
Bain stated the 4 girls, who aren’t Syrian and can’t return to their very own homelands, had been instructed they’d per week and a half to make their remaining choice.
“They’d per week and a half to resolve in the event that they needed to ship their youngsters to Canada,” she stated.
“The explanation given in accordance with the World Affairs official who spoke to the ladies … that after per week and a half there could be one airplane and that was it. When you did not get on that airplane, World Affairs stated we’re not coming again.”
Hope is for moms to get momentary residence permits
Niv stated the hope is that the moms will be capable of get hold of momentary residence permits, both by way of the federal authorities, or if needed, by court docket order.
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He stated his job as counsel can be to search out counsel who can battle the case in federal court docket if needed.
“Within the occasion that this must be litigated in federal court docket, we could have among the heavy hitters,” he stated.
Niv stated it was hoped that the ruling on the ladies’s destiny would make the federal government rethink its place.
He stated Ottawa might lengthen momentary residence permits with out the ladies going by way of the method of making use of.
“If we litigate this in court docket, it could basically imply even their capability to get momentary permits, so step one to changing into everlasting residents, them to changing into residents, is momentary residency.”
Staying in Syria can imply dire circumstances
Bain stated if the ladies had been pressured to remain in Syria with their youngsters, their circumstances could be dire.
If ISIS had been to recapture the realm, they’d be pressured to affix them or be killed, whereas their youngsters could be taken away by the terrorist group.
“It isn’t a fairly image,” she stated.
World Affairs didn’t reply to a Postmedia request for remark.
KMartin@postmedia.com
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