BEZAN DENOUNCES THANKSGIVING DINNER FOR FORMER KGB AGENT
Selkirk, MB - James Bezan, Member of Parliament for Selkirk-Interlake, delivered the following statement in the House of Commons, strongly condemned NDP MP’s Peter Julian and Don Davies for hosting a Thanksgiving dinner for former KGB agent, Mikhail Lennikov, in East Vancouver. Bezan said:
“Three years ago, the Federal Court of Canada and the Immigration and Refugee Board ruled that former KGB agent Mikhail Lennikov was inadmissible to Canada.”
“Lennikov is now a fugitive evading deportation orders, and has illegally taken sanctuary in a church basement in Vancouver.”
“Two weeks ago, the NDP MP`s from Burnaby-New Westminster and Vancouver-Kingsway had Thanksgiving dinner with the former KGB agent in a show of support.” “It must be said that anyone who was part of the former KGB assisted in one form or another with the atrocities carried out by the KGB.” “It doesn't matter how basic or advanced their role was, they all worked together to fulfill the KGB`s brutal mission. How many people were wrongfully arrested or killed by the KGB as a result of Lennikov`s services?”
“These two NDP MPs have insulted Vancouver's Ukrainian community and over 1.2 million Ukrainian-Canadians across Canada, as well as the other ethnic groups who suffered under the cruel hand of the KGB. I demand these MPs apologize.”
Upon arrival to Canada in 1997, former KGB agent Mikhail Lennikov failed to reveal his past membership in the Soviet Union’s secret police. After this information came to light, the Federal Court of Canada and the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada ruled that Mikhail Lennikov has no right of sanctuary in Canada; does not have refugee status; and is inadmissible to Canada because of his membership in an organization that engaged in espionage against a democratic government. Lennikov has evaded his deportation orders by living in the basement of Vancouver’s First Lutheran Church for the last 3 years.
