Dear Editor:
I love this country and am proud of who we are as a collective people. I genuinely embrace the multiculturalism that has always, and will forever continue to shape Canada into the great nation that it is. Where I draw the line, is that we don't have more mechanisms in place for our officials to turf a guy like this (murderer Babak Najafi-Chaghabouri) back to where he came from after he clearly showed himself to be a violent man, well before this brutal act even took place (Convicted North Van Axe Killer Plans Appeal, Oct. 31, North Shore News).
This has absolutely nothing to do with race, religion, beliefs, etc. My thoughts on this are based entirely on the fact that we provide the opportunity for people of foreign nations to come to a better place and enjoy the rights, freedoms and beauty that we all love and cherish. When such a person displays a total lack of moral substance, and in this case extreme violent tendencies, he or she should be on the next flight home. Let their home country deal with it. As taxpayers, we should not have to pay for this animal to spend 25 years behind bars on our soil. He should've been ousted based on one of six prior offenses - let alone taking a hatchet to someone's head. The fact that deportation was attempted unsuccessfully makes it all the more disappointing. There has to be a better way.
Scott J. Switzer North Vancouver
