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In early 2008, Brenda Martin, a Canadian citizen held in a Mexican prison, was brought back to Canada by Jason Kenney, the Secretary of State for Multiculturalism. The minister actually travelled to the prison where Martin was held to make arrangements for her transfer to Canada. Martin had been convicted of money laundering by a Mexican judge who sentenced her to five years in prison in Mexico without parole.
Brenda Martin never admitted her guilt. She maintained she was a Canadian wrongfully convicted in an unfair trial in Mexico and sentenced to a lengthy sentence for a crime she did not commit. Canadians rallied around her and the Federal government stepped in to secure her transfer to Canada. That was right and proper.
The Conservative government was widely, and rightly, praised for acting strongly to protect a Canadian abroad.
James Morton
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