your goverment ploy is all related to nwo,anyone who writes there name on that paper is mentally challanged.f all you war heroes,this is american propiganda at its best

What a bunch of cowards!

I am Canadian and proud of it. I may disagree with some of the things that the U.S. does in its dealings with foreign countries. But it pisses me off and sickens me that these sissies run up here and claim try to claim refugee status when they are given the call to duty. They know full well what they were singing up for when they voluntarily signed up. Not only are these cowards deserters, they are also thieves too, stealing from U.S. taxpayers, and Canadian tax payers. The U.S. Government spent a lot of time and money to have these people whipped into shape and paying them wages to do a job in the army. Then when they are asked to do what it is they trained for, they run. Then they run up here and try to claim refugee status, stealing the time and resources of the courts, the crown, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, the Canadian people, and other intending legitimate immigrants. We could have been using those resources to process refugees fleeing truly desperate situations, instead of these traitors to their country.

I am glad my government has decided to hold firm its position and deport this asshole as well as others like him. I hope rulings like this will help dissuade others in the future of doing the same thing and shirking their duty to their country, and hopefully this guy spends new years in jail, where he belongs.

There is my two cents Canadian worth in.

Hi,
I would be very careful to just judge upon an extremely biased article from the army itself. We do NOT know the personal reasons of those people. They might just as well be rather understandable if it is being put into perspective. And, even as an army webpage, I would not talk down on people like this.
This article is a shame. I agree in one point tho: One should rather NOT join the army. Under any circumstances. In the end it means you may lose your LIFE for a cause that's not yours. Especially when politics changes, just as after 9/11.

I will very carefully judge those that volunteer and then after wards shirk their duty and turn their backs on their brothers. I will very carefully understand that every person who joins the military does so for their own personal reasons and 99.9% may not want to be deployed but when they are ordered to do so they fulfill their contractual and moral obligation to follow those orders.

The only shame in this article is that the addresses of the deserters wasn't published. The military offers many young men and women an opportunity to become the men and women that their parents never became which is why our country is in the state it is in.

Politics may change but one thing is constant throughout American History. That constant is the patriots who step up and defend those whose freedom is at stake whether they realize it or not.

God bless our troops that are out there fighting and protecting our nation.

As for the cowards in Canada, Abu Grab still has some cells open I hear. Then again there is always the firing squad as they deserted during a time of war.

Here is an follow up to the story. Apparently they are going to let the coward stay in Canada another month, to work on another angle for staying Canada.

There is something really flawed with our system, when it allows people like this a fourth chance. He has already been denied three times.

I really wish they would send this prick back. Aside from the things I said above. He is also taking a job away from a real Canadian who actually deserves it.

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Army deserter granted reprieve; celebrates Christmas in Canada

By Darrell BellaartDecember 24, 2008

NANAIMO, B.C. — A U.S. army deserter living in B.C. will not be forced to leave Canada by Christmas Eve.

Clifford Cornell, who was to be deported back to the U.S. this week, was given a temporary reprieve by Immigration Canada.

Cornell has another month to build his legal defence to stay in Canada.

Cornell, 28, signed up with the U.S. army in 2002, accepting a recruiting bonus worth about $5,000.

The Arkansas native deserted when he learned a few months later he would have to fight in the Iraq war.

Cornell could face several years in a military prison if he enters the U.S.

"The thing has been put back to Jan. 22 so I've got another month," Cornell said. "I wish it was longer but at least this way I've got another month to talk to my lawyer and figure out what the next step is."

It means now he'll be spending his Christmas in the snowy Great White North, not behind bars. Asked how he would celebrate, he said: "I'll probably just go out and buy a case of beer."

He's still working out how he'll spend his Christmas, or who he'll spend it with.

Cornell, who is distant from his father and stepbrothers, said he feels closer to Canada now than U.S.

"I've been here over four years now and I'm established. I've got friends and I've got a decent job now. To me, it is home. I really don't have anything down there to go back to."

Immigration Canada turned down Cornell's application for refugee status on Dec. 4, then he applied to stay in Canada on humanitarian and compassionate grounds. That application too was denied so he applied for something called a pre-residence assessment, which was also denied.

His lawyer will spend the next month asking Immigration Canada for an explanation why his applications were denied and exploring what his options are to stay in the country.
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Thanks for that enlightening article. I agree he is taking up space and a job that a Canadian could be doing. Much like the Mexicans are doing in America. He is an illegal alien and should be treated as such. Then when he returns to the US he should have the book thrown at him.