>And he didn't even use it to try and get into Canada
But he did. He would have needed a visa to get on the flight to Canada (carriers are responsible for ensuring that border protections are enforced), and this was his circumvention.
But he did. He would have needed a visa to get on the flight to Canada (carriers are responsible for ensuring that border protections are enforced), and this was his circumvention.
There are various laws that require careers to prevent people without visas arriving at borders, but those are aimed at making it harder to ask for protection. He managed to work around those; mission accomplished.
-He needs to set foot on actual Canadian soil to claim refugee status
-He can't walk to the border. He needs to make use of a boat or a plane
-Air carriers enforce requirements on behalf of the countries they fly to, like "you need a visa to go to Canada if you're Chinese". This is because countries like Canada like the concept of refugee protections more than the actual practice of them: they want to put barriers up to stop people from actually claiming it.
Bit of a conundrum there, no?
-So he used the ID of someone who wouldn't need a visa/passport, along with the mask, to essentially get past the barrier that the air carrier would not have brought him to Canada otherwise.
The original person claimed, wrongly, that " And he didn't even use it to try and get into Canada, just out of HK.", yet he used the mask to get into Canada by way of getting on an air carrier that wouldn't have let him on otherwise, at which point he was assured entry to Canada and consideration via the refugee program.
This is descending into analty, so I'll stop now :)