this is what you are voting for tomorrow. 


--- On Mon, 11/3/08, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Too Appalling for Words
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 3:08 PM
> Got it -
> http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2008/10/27/doctor-immigration-palsy.h
> tml
> 
> 
> MD rejected for immigration because daughter could burden
> medicare
> 
> A Calgary critical-care doctor's application for
> permanent residency has
> been rejected because one of his daughters might be a drain
> on the health
> care system.
> 
> South African physician Stanley Muwanguzi says his
> 22-year-old daughter has
> been institutionalized since she was a toddler and he has
> no intention of
> moving her to Canada.
> 
> "It has been a nightmare.... [That] this is happening
> in Canada is truly
> shameful. That is the only way to put it," he said.
> 
> Muwanguzi, who works at the Peter Lougheed Hospital, has
> been practising in
> Canada since 2002.
> 
> A letter from the government sent to Muwanguzi says he
> doesn't meet the
> requirements for immigration to Canada.
> 
> The letter says that under the Immigration and Refugee
> Protection Act, a
> "person whose health condition, severe developmental
> delay associated with
> cerebral palsy, might reasonably be expected to cause
> excessive demand on
> health or social services," is inadmissible to Canada.
> 
> Since Muwanguzi's "non-accompanying family member
> is inadmissible to
> Canada," he is also "inadmissible."
> 
> 'Here we have someone so skilled, who has a son equally
> as skilled that
> would join him in a flash. There is no logic behind
> it.' 
> —Lawyer Wendy Danson
> Muwanguzi, who is in Canada on a temporary foreign worker
> permit, has
> appealed the determination. 
> 
> A spokesman for Citizenship and Immigration Canada said
> Muwanguzi's case is
> complicated and moving along as quickly as possible.
> 
> "Once the reviews are done and the people are
> consulted that have to be
> consulted, and that includes medical officers and whatnot,
> then a decision
> will be rendered. It would be my hope that that decision
> will occur sooner
> rather than later," Rob Ferguson said.
> 
> Doctor son also wants to immigrate
> Muwanguzi said if he doesn't receive an answer soon, he
> will have to move
> to the United States.
> 
> Wendy Danson, his lawyer, said Canada needs doctors like
> Muwanguzi. His son
> in South Africa, another practising doctor, would also like
> to move here,
> she said.
> 
> "Here we have someone so skilled, who has a son
> equally as skilled that
> would join him in a flash. There is no logic behind
> it."
> 
> Muwanguzi, a father of five, has two daughters living with
> him and his
> wife, Susan, a teacher in Calgary, as well as two sons
> living in South
> Africa. One of his daughters is a pre-med student at the
> University of
> Alberta and is paying high international student fees of
> about $30,000 a
> year.
> 
> The couple returns to South Africa once a year to visit
> their sons and
> their daughter with cerebral palsy, who isn't capable
> of recognizing them
> or even talking. (Cerebral palsy refers to a group of
> neurological
> disorders that affect control of movement and posture and
> that limit
> activity.)
> 
> Muwanguzi said it's wrong he is being rejected
> "because of the notion that
> my daughter would be a drain on the Canadian economic
> system."
> 
> "I told the Immigration [Department] very clearly that
> I didn't want to
> destabilize my daughter. She has been in the same
> institution since she was
> 18 months old.… They are looking after her very
> well," he said. "There is
> no reason to move her. It would actually be
> detrimental."
> 
> Dan Zuege, the medical director of critical care at Peter
> Lougheed
> Hospital, has written a letter of support for Muwanguzi.
> 
> "I am very supportive of Dr. Muwanguzi's appeal
> for landed immigrant status
> and I have no doubts as to his integrity and intentions
> surrounding the
> care of his daughter and his commitment to service within
> the Canadian
> health care system," he wrote. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Original Message:
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> From: Meir Weiss [log in to unmask]
> Date: Mon, 3 Nov 


      

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