The price of fighting for what you think is right
Donna Jacobs, Citizen Special
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=e4eaad87-209d-45ab-9f41-77f8a8414828&p=1
Monday, August 18, 2008
Former diplomat Brian McAdam was tasked with protecting Canada from international people-smuggling rings, murderers and drug-smuggling, organized criminals from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong.
He discovered and painstakingly documented in more than 100 separate reports to his bosses in the Department of External Affairs infiltration and corruption at the Canadian consulate. And he investigated individual members of the Triads -- China's powerful, Communist Party-connected organized crime gangs -- to buy visas and smuggle its members and spies into Canada.
He worked closely with RCMP liaison officer Sgt. Garry Clement to identify Triad hitmen, violent refugee claimants, drug smugglers, money launderers, collectors on gambling debts and extortion money and their innocent-looking front companies.
He says he was the catalyst behind the law that enables Canada to prevent organized criminals from getting into the country, and that permits others to be deported.
It kept out 5,000 organized criminals, according to Immigration Canada's assessments, he says. "In addition, I stopped 2,000 illegal immigrants from getting to Canada, saving Canadian taxpayers at least $25,000 for each refugee claim -- or $50 million" during the busy days before China took over Hong Kong from the British in 1997.
In his many assignments, he had also trained airport personnel to use ultraviolet lights to reveal doctored passports and other documents. And, pre-Internet, he set up a highly-sophisticated electronic system for them to transmit images of questionable specimens.
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