Abdoul Abdi supporters push for Nova Scotia to intervene in deportation case:
Family and friends of a Somali refugee who came to Nova Scotia as a child 17 years ago were at Province House Tuesday morning trying to get the Nova Scotia government to intervene in his deportation case.
Abdoul Abdi, 23, will be in Toronto on Wednesday for an Immigration and Review Board hearing where he could be ordered deported from Canada.
“I think it’s unfair that they’re trying to strip him of his permanent resident’s card and that he can’t have health care or work, even now that he has a job,” said his sister Fatuma Abdi.. “He’s trying to better himself but the government is moving him 10 steps back.”
Canada’s record on refugees isn’t all its cracked up to be.