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Kubbys Must Leave Canada By Thursday, January 26th.
American cancer patient and medical marijuana refugee,
Steve
Kubby and his family have been ordered to leave Canada on or before
Thursday, January 26th.
Steve
Kubby and his family have been ordered to leave Canada on or before
Thursday, January 26th.
For Immediate Release:
Monday, January 23, 2006
For more info call
Rachel James, Immigration Enforcement Officer. (604) 666-3399
Placer County District Attorney Bradford R. Fenocchio
Chris Cattran, Assistant DA, Voice: (530) 889-7000, Fax (530) 889-7129
Dale Gieringer, Ph.D, California NORML (415) 563-5858
Michele Kubby, (250) 578-58422
Kubbys Must Leave Canada By Thursday, January 26th.
I don't want our daughters to see what US law enforcement will do to
their
father.
VANCOUVER -- American cancer patient and medical marijuana refugee,
Steve
Kubby and his family have been ordered to leave Canada on or before
Thursday, January 26th. Steve Kubby said, The Immigration Ministry
claims
that its departure orders are not subject to appeal, but we're still
trying
to get a court to simply grant us our due process and allow us to
appeal.
If the appeal is not successful, the Kubbys will all have to leave
Canada no
later than Thursday (January 26), according to Rachel James,
Immigration
Enforcement Officer.
Placer County Assistant District Attorney Chris Cattran told the Auburn
Journal on January 6th that Kubby would be arrested and jailed for at
least
120 days, and possibly much longer. Nonetheless, on January 9th,
Immigration
Counsel Keith Reimer told Justice Yvon Pinard that Kubby faced no risk
of
arrest if he is forced to return, and Pinard ignored Cattrans statement
and
ruled accordingly last Friday.
If he is forced to leave, Steve Kubby will fly directly to San
Francisco,
where he will be greeted by both US law enforcement and California
medical
marijuana activists, including representatives of California NORML.
Every
effort will be made to keep Kubby from being forced to return to Placer
County.
In his testimony to a Canadian Refugee hearing in April of 2003,
Cattran
said that Placer County had
arranged for two specialists to fly in and testify at Kubbys trial that
Kubby didn't really have cancer,
but if he did, cannabis was contraindicated and would just make his
condition worse. Of course, neither doctor had ever seen Steve Kubby,
and
the leading cancer specialist in BC had just testified to the contrary.
Because of this attitude, Kubbys friends and family believe that his
life
will be in great danger there.
Consequently, Michele Kubby and their two daughters will not be flying
down.
They will drive to California, instead.
I don't want our daughters to see what US law enforcement will do to
their
father. How can you explain to children that their father is going to
be
murdered by their government because he uses a medicine that it doesn't
like? she asked.
Mrs. Kubby added, Today is election day in Canada and tomorrow all of
the
Ministers who can prevent Steves life from being endangered will be
free to
act and do the right thing. I hope that all our friends, especially in
Canada, will call the Ministers and urge them to stop this injustice.
Joe Volpe, Minister of Immigration, Voice: (613) 954-1064, Fax: (613)
957-2688
Ujjal Dosanjh, Minister of Health, Voice: (613) 995-7052, Fax: (613)
995-2962
Irwin Cotler, Minister of Justice, (613) 992-4621, Fax: (613) 990-7522
Anne McLellan, Deputy Prime Minister, (613) 991-2924, Fax: (613)
952-2240
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Monday, January 23, 2006
For more info call
Rachel James, Immigration Enforcement Officer. (604) 666-3399
Placer County District Attorney Bradford R. Fenocchio
Chris Cattran, Assistant DA, Voice: (530) 889-7000, Fax (530) 889-7129
Dale Gieringer, Ph.D, California NORML (415) 563-5858
Michele Kubby, (250) 578-58422
Kubbys Must Leave Canada By Thursday, January 26th.
I don't want our daughters to see what US law enforcement will do to
their
father.
VANCOUVER -- American cancer patient and medical marijuana refugee,
Steve
Kubby and his family have been ordered to leave Canada on or before
Thursday, January 26th. Steve Kubby said, The Immigration Ministry
claims
that its departure orders are not subject to appeal, but we're still
trying
to get a court to simply grant us our due process and allow us to
appeal.
If the appeal is not successful, the Kubbys will all have to leave
Canada no
later than Thursday (January 26), according to Rachel James,
Immigration
Enforcement Officer.
Placer County Assistant District Attorney Chris Cattran told the Auburn
Journal on January 6th that Kubby would be arrested and jailed for at
least
120 days, and possibly much longer. Nonetheless, on January 9th,
Immigration
Counsel Keith Reimer told Justice Yvon Pinard that Kubby faced no risk
of
arrest if he is forced to return, and Pinard ignored Cattrans statement
and
ruled accordingly last Friday.
If he is forced to leave, Steve Kubby will fly directly to San
Francisco,
where he will be greeted by both US law enforcement and California
medical
marijuana activists, including representatives of California NORML.
Every
effort will be made to keep Kubby from being forced to return to Placer
County.
In his testimony to a Canadian Refugee hearing in April of 2003,
Cattran
said that Placer County had
arranged for two specialists to fly in and testify at Kubbys trial that
Kubby didn't really have cancer,
but if he did, cannabis was contraindicated and would just make his
condition worse. Of course, neither doctor had ever seen Steve Kubby,
and
the leading cancer specialist in BC had just testified to the contrary.
Because of this attitude, Kubbys friends and family believe that his
life
will be in great danger there.
Consequently, Michele Kubby and their two daughters will not be flying
down.
They will drive to California, instead.
I don't want our daughters to see what US law enforcement will do to
their
father. How can you explain to children that their father is going to
be
murdered by their government because he uses a medicine that it doesn't
like? she asked.
Mrs. Kubby added, Today is election day in Canada and tomorrow all of
the
Ministers who can prevent Steves life from being endangered will be
free to
act and do the right thing. I hope that all our friends, especially in
Canada, will call the Ministers and urge them to stop this injustice.
Joe Volpe, Minister of Immigration, Voice: (613) 954-1064, Fax: (613)
957-2688
Ujjal Dosanjh, Minister of Health, Voice: (613) 995-7052, Fax: (613)
995-2962
Irwin Cotler, Minister of Justice, (613) 992-4621, Fax: (613) 990-7522
Anne McLellan, Deputy Prime Minister, (613) 991-2924, Fax: (613)
952-2240
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