Harper Gov’t Denies Canadian a Passport to Canada.

April 3, 2009

CBC

Supporters of Abousfian Abdelrazik — a Canadian citizen blacklisted as a terrorist and stranded in Sudan — accused the federal government of racism Friday for refusing to issue him an emergency passport to fly home to Montreal.

“We denied the passport on the basis of national security,” Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said Friday at the NATO summit in Strasbourg, France.

Abdelrazik received the news about two hours before he was to board a flight home, said his lawyer, Yavar Hamid.

“This is a very disappointing and outrageous response by this government.”

In Ottawa, Abdelrazik’s supporters, including MPs from all three opposition parties, described his situation as “Kafkaesque” during a small protest and news conference on Parliament Hill Friday.

“Obviously, there’s a question of racism here,” Amir Attaran, a University of Ottawa law professor, told the CBC in an interview.

“He has the unfortunate problem of being the same colour as the president of the United States and the Governor-General. He’s Muslim. He has an odd name, but there’s no legal reason to deny him a passport.”

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