Temporary Permit for Conrad Black

Hazel’s Blog – Temporary Permit for Conrad Black 

I am new at reviewing these types of cases.  I keep asking myself what could have, what should have been approved or not approved and what was the validation which lead to an approval for a TRP?

Wow lots of comments on Conrad’s welcome back to Canada; for the time being.  Somehow I have a feeling that he will be granted a permanent resident or even his Canadian Citizenship status back.

How to we look at this case?  Keep changing glasses to see it from another perspective.  Focusing in on his needs at his age and his wife’s holistic wellbeing.   Should we feel compassion and forgiveness for such a case?  Even if there is forgiveness should there still be a consequence for his actions.  Would others be treated in this same manner? Should we compare this case to others? I think so, there are those who get refused, we need to do some comparison research.  Also was the Minister involved, I heard he wasn’t, does this fit the regulations for approving a TRP, or does the regulations state that the Minister must be involved. 

I hear an echo of; it’s not fair and yet we also see his face and see him as a family man who needs to come home, or wait a minute he renounced his Canadian Citizenship!  Should this count for something? Where is his patriotism to Canada, he signed it away!  Now Canada has opened her arms and embraced him for the time being.

I believe in forgiveness and also in serving the sentence to which he had been given for the crime he committed.  Anyone of us would have to.  Same time this is setting an example to the rest of Canada and to the world of how one can demonstrate their loyalty to one’s country, to practicing honesty, and to how a sentence can be shortened for some or would this have happened for anyone in Conrad’s position? 

Black paid a 200.00 fee for his temporary resident permit; this is the fee anyone would have to pay.  Temporary Resident Visa is a doorway into Canada which those who otherwise would never be admitted and those who are deemed inadmissible due to foreign citizenship and the owner of a criminal record.

Immigration officers weigh the information and the person’s probability to recommit the/a crime and also their reasons of why they need in and based on that they either approve a TRV or reject it.

Conrad’s last citizenship was in United Kingdom, maybe he will end up returning there and his family can follow.  Media eyes are watching and ears are listening for the next episode of Conrad Black.  Hmm I still wouldn’t want them to be separated or look at wrongly, he did time (some) for his crime, let’s hope if he stays in Canada that he will now be patriotic.