Canadian immigration officials showed a troubling level of bias when they prevented the return to Canada of a torture victim and his family on humanitarian grounds, the Federal Court has ruled. In a ruling released Monday, Justice Mary Gleason slammed Canadian visa officials in the Rome embassy for their “lack of objectivity.” She ordered that a different visa office review the case within 90 days and awarded the claimant, former Mississauga resident Adel Benhmuda, $5,000 in court costs. […] The ruling points to a string of “offending” emails from immigration officer Laurent Beaulieu, who at the time was based in Rome. One email “indicated that the entire Rome visa post had reached the conclusion that the applications were to be dismissed, before they had even been submitted,” Justice Gleason wrote.
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