U.S. Soldiers No Longer Find Haven in Canada

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/world/americas/13canada.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

By IAN AUSTEN

TORONTO — James Corey Glass, apprentice mortician and United States Army deserter, was keeping an unusually close eye on the text messages coming into his cellphone. He was hoping to hear that a court had blocked the Canadian government’s attempt to send him back to the United States.

On Wednesday afternoon, the message came: Mr. Glass, 25, could remain in Canada while he appealed his removal order by the country’s Immigration Department. It was a welcome reprieve, he said, but well short of a guarantee that he and other deserters could make Canada their new home.

The Canadian government’s effort to remove Mr. Glass contrasts with the warm reception given to deserters and draft avoiders from the United States during the war in Vietnam. And although the war in Iraq has very little support among Canadians, the situation of Mr. Glass and others who abandoned their military positions provokes a wide range of responses. For American soldiers seeking an escape, Canada is no longer a guaranteed haven.

“It’s quite clear that the current Canadian government does not want to annoy the U.S. government on this issue and will not give any ground,” said Michael Byers, a professor of politics and international law at the University of British Columbia.

During the Vietnam War, the Liberal prime minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, welcomed American deserters and draft dodgers, declaring that Canada “should be a refuge from militarism.” Americans who arrived were generally able to obtain legal immigrant status simply by applying at the border, or even after they entered Canada.

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1. Does not want to annoy - clever twist for a government that appears to

approve of our invading, plundering, imprisoning able bodied men, flying them in Lear jets to god forsaken countries for torturing, plus the thieving, lying, and distruction of our Constitution, Bill of Rights, Habeus Corpus. All the Echelon countries are big supporters of Cheney and George and are part of the baron squads. I think it will all be revealed one day.

There are no leader-peacemakers in the Echelon countries, plis France, Portugal, Poland, and possibly even in Ireland, and the Arab countries and especially not in Israel.