‘Government didn’t protect me at all’: Ukrainian father begs Canada to reassess their refugee claim

Former Canadian-Ukrainian refugee Mina Makar tearfully recounts how he and his young family fled Ukraine to the Polish border. Makar and his wife moved to Canada in 2016, had children with Canadian citizenship but their refugee claim was rejected earlier this year and they were deported to back to Ukraine.

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29 comments

  1. 🇨🇦🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🦁🎄🎄🎄🎄
    Refugees totally unrequired on Lake Superior

    1. Would you rather have Syrian/ Afghan refugees with a dozen kids depending on Canadian taxpayers for years and years???? This guy was employed and contributing to the economy. He speaks English well enough to get employed easily whereas Syrian refugees have to be supported for years until they learn English and become employable. Wake up!!

  2. Western countries threw Ukraine under the bus. Dangled NATO membership when they knew the stakes, then cut and run.

    1. In fact he is obliged to! Zelensky has called into effect the Martial Law that no male citizen between the ages of 18 and 60 is to leave Ukraine because of the present at-war status of the country!! If a healthy male leaves Ukraine now it is desertion!

  3. And as hard as it is to say it, he needs to be fighting to defend Ukraine. The more men that fight the better.

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