Liberals were preaching about the virtues of defecting to Canada after the past election, moving to the great white north to avoid the upcoming Right Wing Christian Inquisition lead by the victorious President elect Bush. Well, at least six US soldiers defected to Canada due to opposition to the invasion of Iraq, and the first soldier got a hearing on his asyulum claim. Result: DENIED! The deserter, Jeremy Hinzman, formerly of the 82nd Airborne, tried to argue that he faced persecution or cruel and unusual punishment. Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board ruled otherwise.

Just to show not all Canucks are Euro-French socialists, this Toronto writer observes, “You could randomly grab someone off any street in the Sudan, and be fairly certain that person would make a better refugee than Jeremy Hinzman.” Ouch!

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