加国无忧/据《多伦多太阳报》今天在头版报道，39岁华人女子张虹（Hong Zhang音译）竭尽全力，试图在她被遣返之前将1岁女儿留在加拿大，但她的要求被儿童保护协会（Children’s Aid Society）正式拒绝，目前张虹已经哭干了眼泪，但仍然避免不了被遣返回中国的命运。
儿童保护协会皮尔办公室（Peel offices）的工作人员告诉张虹说，如果她想要将自己的女儿留在加拿大，孩子将被作为弃婴给人领养。听到这样的决定，张虹近乎绝望，因为她希望儿童保护协会能够收养1岁的女儿，以便女儿成年之后可以将她作为团聚移民办来加拿大。
该办公室的发言人Lucie Baistrocchi说，每一个孩子在被接受之前都要经过严格的评估，“但在这个（指张虹的女儿）个案中，我们没有意识到儿童保护的问题（We are not aware of any child protection issues in this case）”。
张虹在现场表示她十分失望，“我不希望我的女儿回到中国，”“我想她在加拿大有一个更好的生活”她边哭边说，引得她怀中的孩子也跟着哭起来。
张虹通过翻译表示，“孩子如果回到中国不会有什么前途，她留在这儿多少还有点希望。”
张虹的移民顾问Roy Kellogg强调说，张的女儿出生在加拿大，是加拿大公民，要是回到中国很可能被当作二等公民对待，她很难得到中国公民身份，因此上学读书和治病就医都会很成问题；她也很可能因为自己的私生子身份而在那边受尽屈辱。这位移民顾问还说，张虹如果带她的孩子回国，也许要面临14万加元的罚款。
张虹于1997年来到加拿大，曾经多次申请难民身份但均未成功。她被要求下周三向移民部门报告以安排遣返事宜。
加拿大边境服务处的官员Anna Pape说，“我们的工作就是执行国家法律”，对那些已经没有任何理由留在加拿大的人士必须遣返。
但太阳报的整篇文章均没有提到孩子的父亲是谁以及目前的状况，只是张虹的移民顾问Roy Kellogg在接受记者采访时提到孩子为私生（wedlock）。
《多伦多太阳报》的原文及视频：
http://torontosun.com/News/TorontoA…013250-sun.html
http://torontosun.com/Video/2007/04/13/4003929.html
（吴楚河编译）
Desperate mom denied
Children’s Aid refuses to hold baby in child protection when single woman is deported to China
By TOM GODFREY, SUN MEDIA
Sat, April 14, 2007
MISSISSAUGA — Single mom Hong Zhang cried a river of tears yesterday after learning she can’t leave her baby daughter in Canada with Children’s Aid when she is deported to her native China.
Zhang, 39, broke down after leaving the agency’s Peel offices, where she had tried to place her only child.
She was told 1-year-old Sherry will be put up for adoption as an abandoned child if left behind, but Zhang wants the girl to sponsor her back to Canada some day.
“I feel very sad right now,” Zhang said. “I do not want Sherry to go to China. I want her to have a better life in Canada.”
As Zhang wept, the baby started crying and had to be cradled.
“My child will not have much of a future in China,” she said through interpreter Jane Lou. “At least here she has some kind of future.”
Roy Kellogg, Zhang’s immigration consultant, said it can take more than 20 years for Zhang to be sponsored back to Canada by Sherry, who must first reach age 18.
Kellogg said the Canadian-born child will be treated as a second-class citizen if sent to China, where laws ban children out of wedlock. He said Sherry will be stigmatized and will not get health coverage, be allowed to attend school or to obtain Chinese citizenship.
As a single mom, Zhang also faces a fine of $140,000 a child for returning to China with children, Kellogg said.
Zhang came to Canada in 1997 and filed an unsuccessful refugee claim and appeals. She is to report to immigration next Wednesday to make deportation arrangements.
Lucie Baistrocchi, a Peel Children’s Aid spokesman, said yesterday each child has to be assessed as requiring protection before they’re accepted as wards.
“We are not aware of any child protection issues in this case,” Baistrocchi said. “There has to be a child protection issue.”
Anna Pape, of the Canada Border Services Agency, said her officers must deport those who have exhausted all avenues for staying here.
“Our job is to enforce the laws of the land,” Pape said. “We don’t decide who gets to stay in Canada.”
