RCMP eyes Canadian financial ties to Tamil migrant ship

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Ottawa wants to choke off financial links between this country's Tamil diaspora and the human traffickers who sell passage on ships to Canada.

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said he has been told the organizers of the voyage of the MV Sun Sea, which reached Canadian waters on Friday with more than 450 men, women and children on board, charged up to $50,000 a passenger – for a potential total haul of more than $20-million.

Inside the Harper government, questions are being raised as to whether Canadian residents helped pay, Mr. Toews said in an interview Sunday. It is a criminal offence to give money to a banned terrorist organization or to participate in human smuggling.

Mr. Toews said he is worried by reports from his officials that the journey could have been organized by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The Tamil Tigers, as they are known, were banned as a terrorist organization in Canada after an RCMP investigation found evidence of substantial fundraising – voluntary and extorted – from legitimate Tamil immigrants to Canada.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/rcmp-eyes-canadian-financial-ties-to-tamil-migrant-ship/article1673890/

So are the RCMP telling the government that the immigrants are funding this or is the New Canadian Government doing a Clement?

Perhaps we should say a Clem.

Peckers one can't trust.

http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/820390--from-fountains-to-gardens-to-buried-hydrants-it-s-a-new-world-in-the-near-north