Heavy Sigh!

Randy Quaid thanks Canada for 'opportunity to live in peace'

"Looks like Randy Quaid and wife Evi will be staying put in Canada.

Evi announced yesterday that she has received her Canadian citizenship and she filed an application to sponsor her husband. Evi proudly pinned her citizenship card to her lapel for a news conference in Vancouver.

As a result, Canadian border officials say they have ended their efforts to send Randy back to the United States, where he faces criminal vandalism charges in a property dispute.

Evi was granted Canadian citizenship because her father was born in Canada. A final decision on Randy's request will be made by Canadian immigration authorities, but he can remain in the country while that happens."

Where to begin?!?! Let's start with Evi. Her father was born in Canada and that puts her on a fast track???? I want to know how long her father actually lived here? Did he spend time as an adult exercising adult responsibilities? I'd like to know, because just being born here, isn't enough to pass on citizenship to your kids, as far as I'm concerned, if neither you nor your kid have ever really lived here. It would be nice to know if he grew up here, or at least, whether he lived in Canada as a responsible adult and demonstrated responsible citizenship, while he was here. I haven't read any news article that explores that angle, but I believe it's an important one to explore. If his daughter had to apply for Canadian citizenship, one would assume he was living in the U.S. when she was born. Did he move there as an adult or was he, himself, still in diapers? This seems to be an insane criterion upon which to base eligibility for citizenship. Her own history seems enough to prompt me to have grave concerns about granting her citizenship and since she seems to have left home at 12 years of age, I'd be a bit suspicious about the family as a whole, not just her. Where was her father and how is it that a 12 year old doesn't know her father was born in Canada?

And as far as Quaid himself is concerned, it appears the charges against him in California have been dropped:

"Canada Border Services said Randy Quaid was inadmissible to Canada because of the charges he faced in the United States, but the agency confirmed Wednesday that those proceedings against the actor have now been withdrawn.

The agency would not specify what led them to that decision but Quaid’s lawyer, John Shewfelt, said he believes the charges in the U.S. are not an extraditable offence and the agency likely withdrew after looking at the files sent to them by American prosecutors.

“I draw the logical connection between the absence of evidence and the withdrawal of the proceeding,” Shewfelt said.

The couple’s other lawyer, Catherine Sas, said both the sponsorship and refugee applications will continue but a refugee claim takes about 18 months, twice as long as sponsorship."

Surely to God, their "refugee" claim is bogus. I can't help but think that their arrival in Canada was solely to escape the charges levied for trashing the California hotel.

Something smells here. But you gotta hand it to them. They knew where to land in Canada. Our left coast has a lot in common with America's left coast. And "apparently Canadian citizenship doesn’t require a psych exam".