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At the same time, the Government here must commit itself to preserving the rule of law in all cases involving the Vietnamese Boat people. We must not have a repeat of
We must not have a repeat of the Ilouting of the rule of law that we saw in the case of the 111 boat people who were granted habeas corpus, nor of recent efforts to deny asylum seekers the right to judicial review to challenge flaws in the screening process.
While these are the steps that I hope the Government will take, I hope that our community can continue to deal with this As frustrated as we serious problem with compassion and reason. may be by the positions of the British and American Governments,
the boat people
We should give genuine refugees the fullest possible chance to prove their case, and we should make
and we should make sure that the
unfortunate boat people in the camps are
the camps are able to live under
humane conditions.
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us not take out these frustrations on
themselves.
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I call on all of our citizens
generous and compassionate. to continue to exhibit charity towards the boat people and work constructively cowarus
the British Government.
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must not further mislead our people into thinking that we can decide for ourselves whether to abandon the policy of first asylum or not, and thereby shooting ourselves in the foot internationally by grabbing the baby from the lap of the British Government and thereby taking over its headaches as well. We must instead render to Caesar what is Ceasar's by letting the British Government decide for us in relation to this difficult problem and so letting it pay for its own decision, whichever way it goes.
1 sar, for these reasons, am alsposed to support the Honourable Stephen Cheong's amendment if we have a quorum by
then.
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