MONTREAL -- War criminals on the lam are sheltered from international justice by Canada's lumbering, ineffective legal system, charges a former intelligence analyst in the RCMP war crimes unit.
Canada has been a popular destination for those fleeing recent conflicts in the Balkans and Rwanda, but former intelligence officials and international lawyers question whether Ottawa has the resources to weed out those ducking prosecution.
"If I were working as a consultant for war criminals, what I would tell them is that Canada is probably the best place to go in terms of avoiding prosecution and in terms of avoiding deportation," Tom Quiggin, an ex-intelligence analyst for the war crimes units of both the RCMP and Citizenship and Immigration, said.
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"The whole point of the Canadian immigration system is to get people into the country," says Quiggin.
"It has very little focus on how do we get people out of the country when we suddenly discover we have a few bad apples in with the rest."
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