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rfmcdonaldIs it wrong for me to think, knowing the KGB's history, "good"?
Thoughts?
A federal-court judge has upheld Ottawa's decision to deport a former KGB officer who moved to Canada with his family after the Soviet Union collapsed.
Mikhail Lennikov, 49, has been waging a long and solitary battle with federal Immigration and border officials to stay in Canada, even though he was ordered deported in June.
Instead, he hid out in a Vancouver church where he has lived ever since.
But Mr. Lennikov's latest appeal to the courts has again been rejected, this time by a federal-court judge who rejected his request for a judicial review of the federal government's decision to deport him.
In a 24-page decision, Mr. Justice Michel Beaudry dismissed Mr. Lennikov's application, saying there were no reviewable errors to "warrant the Court's intervention."
Yesterday, Mr. Lennikov was resigned, but vowed he will remain at the church indefinitely.
He has said he fears for his life if he's forced to return to Russia.
"I do not have anywhere to go," he said in a phone interview.
"I cannot go back."
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