d until the flight staff had identified the elderly white man change to a young Asian man after he had emerged from the washroom. Therefore, after the landing in Vancouver, this man was reported and was escorted off the plane by the police. Immediately after getting off the plane, this man claimed refugee protection.After precise investigation, the police discovered that the identifications such as passport this man has used to board on the plane were legitimate identifications from U.S. Moreover, police also believe that this man had at least two accomplices including one American according to the security camera footage in Hong Kong airport. Therefore police are now suspecting criminal organizations being involved in this case for human smuggling business. Moreover, the lawyers of this man are requesting Canadian government to abolish the public hearing as well as banning any ties with Chinese media and government. Lawyers stated that this man could be in severe danger if more information about him is revealed towards the public since his face has already been exposed through the media. In addition, the lawyers also stated that this man is part of the organization in China that could seriously jeopardize his life.
Public Safety Minister of Canada, Vic Toews stated that this case is no different from any other illegal refugee border crossing cases except for the fact that the man has used mask instead of commonly used disguise tools such as wigs, hair dyes, glasses, and so on. Many of the people including the lawyers and workers from various broadcasting stations are encouraging government to halt further information being exposed to the public and are also questioning the government about how the information of this case was leaked to mass media broadcasting stations such as CNN in the first place.
In my opinion, I believe that this man must be protected and receive aids and support from the Canadian government. First of all, whatever the reason is, this man's life is jeopardized in his home country therefore in order to help this man live safely, Canada should take him as a refugee. I believe that this is morally right. Secondly, Canada, a great country with great policy towards refugees should take this man in and help him in order to keep up the great reputation which Canada holds as being a global leader and supporting others that need desperate help in international level. Secondly, the fact that the information about this man's identity was released through media is a major problem. This man's identity should have been protected under the refugee policy and he could be in severe danger if the identity is exposed. However due to the information leak, media revealed the case and the man's identity including the picture although his eyes were censored out. I believe that refugees' identity shouldn't be exposed under any circumstances to guarantee their safety from the public, however due to this leak, Canadian government failed to do that. This leak of information has not only jeopardized this man's life but also ruined the Canada's reputation on refugee policy. It is Canadian government's job to learn from this incident and set much more strict laws to prevent this kind of situation occurring again in the future.
On the whole, in order to protect this man from further danger, additional information towards this man's identity should not be revealed to public and Canadian government must do their best to appropriately assist this man to settle in Canada without any major problems. Moreover, the government should set much more strict laws in order to prevent additional refugee information leaking in the future which can threaten refugee's lives, especially regarding to their identity.
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I agree with Andy on some parts. I agree that the identity and other personal information of the man should be kept out of reach to the media. I find Canada's actions towards this event, though, very reasonable. What happens if this man used this disguise to get through security and somehow, in some way, use this to hurt people? If the law enforcement officers didn't properly restrain this man, he could have caused an indefinite amount of harm in the near future. That could have been a test run to see whether or not this mask will work for future acts of terrorism. Although this man could seriously need help as a refugee and require assistance, he should not have to this illegally. Also he should not have to be in the position where people have to decide whether or not his actions were meant to harm or were just innocent acts in one's daily life.
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