“According to internal government documents obtained by Global News, Canada has a secret program that allows certain ‘high-profile’ foreign nationals who would otherwise be barred from entering the country due to national security concerns, war crimes, human rights violations and organized crime to be granted special ‘public policy’ entry visas so long as it is in Canada’s ‘national interest.'”
The article below states a valid question: “But exactly what “national interest” means in relation to this policy and how the government decides who gets this kind of visa is unclear.”
These “high profile foreign nationals” include high profile jihadists, such as retired Brig.-Gen. Khaled Saber Abdelhamed Zahw, who was deemed “inadmissible” to Canada due to the threat he posed to national security. Now Zahw and his wife have managed to obtain valid visas under this new secret visa program.
Given that Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rolled out the welcome mat for Islamic State jihadists, this news should come at no surprise, but it should be infuriating to all Canadians.
Last year, Breitbart “leaked documents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)” which showed that “the intelligence service is far more concerned with Islamic terrorism behind closed doors than the left-wing Trudeau government will admit in public.”
The Liberal government has also scrapped a law instituted by the former Conservative government to strip citizenship from convicted terrorists who have dual citizenship. The premise was logical and important, as reported by the Toronto Sun, that “if you commit high treason or acts of war against Canada, the thinking goes, you’ve forfeited your right to be Canadian.”
Where is the outcry in Canada?
“Canada has a secret program that grants visas to war criminals, terrorists, security threats,” by Brian Hill, Global News, December 16, 2019:
Three months before he boarded a plane in Cairo and six months before he made a refugee claim in Toronto, Canadian security officials deemed retired Brig.-Gen. Khaled Saber Abdelhamed Zahw “inadmissible” to Canada because of national security concerns.
Zahw was a “high-ranking” member of Egypt’s military when it orchestrated a coup of President Mohamed Morsi’s government in 2013, according to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).
An inadmissibility finding would keep most people out of Canada, but it didn’t stop Zahw and his wife from obtaining valid visitor visas from the Canadian embassy in Egypt in April 2015.
This is because, according to internal government documents obtained by Global News, Canada has a secret program that allows certain “high-profile” foreign nationals who would otherwise be barred from entering the country due to national security concerns, war crimes, human rights violations and organized crime to be granted special “public policy” entry visas so long as it is in Canada’s “national interest.”
But exactly what “national interest” means in relation to this policy and how the government decides who gets this kind of visa is unclear.
That’s because there’s almost no information available about the program, and the government refuses to answer questions.
Details of Zahw’s immigration file, including internal government documents detailing the secretive visa policy, were submitted to the Federal Court when Zahw challenged the government’s efforts to block him from making a refugee claim….