Canada let's in the most useless people and instead of welcoming this guy with open arms is ready to send him back to China. The Chinese are an under appreciated part of Canada, they built the railways, the highways, hotels, restaurants and laundries. Bring in the Chinese by the millions if possible. In my opinion what Canada needs is Chinese.
China's most wanted fugitive released from Canadian custody
By Andy Ivens, Postmedia News July 12, 2011 10:02 PM
Chinese fugitive Lai Changxing, shown here in Burnaby in 2001, could be deported at the end of the month after Chinese government officials assured Canadian authorities Changxing would not be tortured or executed on his return.Photograph by: Jon Murray, PNGVANCOUVER — China's most wanted fugitive, Lai Changxing, was ordered released from custody on Tuesday pending his next court appearance July 21 in Federal Court.
Immigration and Refugee Board member Leeann King decided Lai, who came to Canada in 1999 and claimed refugee status, was not a flight risk.
Lai was arrested by Canadian Border Services Agency officers on Thursday after receiving a negative decision in his application for a stay of his removal, a decision that was four years in the making.
His lawyers are fighting for him to stay in Canada arguing that assurances the Canadian government extracted from China that Lai will not be tortured or arbitrarily executed if he is found guilty of embezzling billions of dollars are not adequate.
Canada has no extradition treaty with China.
If the judge rules against him on July 21, he will likely be deported on July 25.
If the judge grants the stay, he will likely remain in legal limbo, although free in Canada, indefinitely.
Conditions of his release include Lai posting a surety of $70,000, providing CBSA officials with his phone records and reporting to an officer every Thursday.
King also ordered him not have any contact with two men and one woman she described as members of the Big Circle Boys criminal group or their associates — Huang Xiao Yan, Ting Yan Wah (a.k.a. Henry Ting) and Tam Kwok Chung.
Kevin Boothroyd, the Immigration Ministry lawyer who argued for Lai's continued detention pending the outcome of his case, told King that Lai had been in contact with the accused criminals, a breach of conditions from his earlier release.
But King said Boothroyd provided no evidence to show that Lai knew the men were Big Circle Boys.
Lai, who lives in downtown Vancouver, was allowed to continue contact with his girlfriend Lin Ping Ping.
King ruled there is no evidence that Lin is involved in criminal activity. A mortgage on Lin's Richmond, B.C., property was paid off by Ting's wife.
Lai stands accused of running a $10-billion smuggling operation in which Chinese customs officials were bribed with liquor and prostitutes at Lai's seven-storey pleasure palace in China.
His lawyer David Matas said 15 people have been convicted and sentenced to death in the case, and that at least eight of them have been executed.
Lai's brother and accountant have died in prison under suspicious circumstances, said Matas.
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