No proof woman stranded in Kenya is Canadian: Cannon

[CHIMO]

Source: CBC News

The federal government has found no proof that a woman stranded in Kenya because she didn't look like the photo on her Canadian passport is actually a Canadian citizen, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said Friday.

Suaad Haji Mohamud has been detained in Nairobi for more than two months and is waiting for Canada to acknowledge her citizenship so she can return to her 12-year-old son in Toronto.

"The individual has to be straightforward, has to let us know whether or not she is a Canadian citizen," Cannon told reporters in Ottawa.

Dozens of her neighbours in Toronto have vouched for her.



Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/07/24/cannon-kenya-stranded-woman072409.html

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Last Updated: Friday, July 24, 2009 | 10:38 PM ET

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

1. canadian passport photos are shit and consular staff are fucking lazy

I am working in Canada and have seen many of my colleagues passports and the photos look like they were printed on a circa 1980 dot matrix printer.

And worldwide consular work is the lowest rung of the diplomatic service and is full of the disgruntled and disillusioned who didn't join the foreign service to work at the DMV, the Australians and Canadians are EASILY the worst for this.

[BunkerHill24]

2. Canada promotes diversity, but its a shallow, uncertain promise

and once you are minority and outside the country you are on your own. Canadian foreign officers are worst than our Cambridge cops.

I AM NOT SURE IF YOU HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS PARTICULAR CASE, BUT IT WOULD GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF HOW THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT ACTS TO-WARDS FOREIGN BORN CITIZENS WHEN HELD CAPTIVE BY FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS.

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Canadian exiled in Sudan wants those who kept him there to face justice

By Andy Blatchford (CP) – Jul 7, 2009

MONTREAL — Back home after six years of exile in Sudan, a Canadian man is now shifting his focus to those he believes stranded him there.

Abousfian Abdelrazik returned to Montreal last month, ending a saga that saw him locked up in a Sudanese jail, interrogated by CSIS and FBI officers and marooned in the Canadian Embassy in Khartoum for more than a year.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gsONIHgY1bjHEdUg8sVNk5Yb_i3w

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Sudanese 'suspect' back in Canada
Sunday, 28 June 2009 12:18 UK

A man with dual Canadian-Sudanese citizenship has arrived in Canada after being stranded in Sudan for six years.

Abousfian Abdelrazik was arrested while visiting his sick mother in 2003, and accused of having links with al-Qaeda.

Canada refused to renew his passport, but after his release he stayed at the Canadian embassy in Khartoum.

On 4 June a Canadian court ordered the government to allow him to return. He denies any links to terrorism and has not been charged with any crimes.

MORE: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8123004.stm

[tularetom]

3. Maybe she claims to have been born in Hawaii but has no birth certificate

[MADem]

4. Her son is in Canada and she has a passport? How about getting a little DNA and checking it out?

Couldn't somebody from the Embassy wander over to the jail with a pin and a bit of absorbent paper or a swab, and make that happen?