NP: Still, Utah is far from satisfied with his treatment at the hands of Canadian authorities. With his refugee claim finally behind him, he’s now suing the immigration department, the CBSA and the two CBSA officers involved in his file, claiming they delayed his case for nearly a decade out of “pure, sheer incompetence” — and because he comes from Australia.
“When I first came here, the CBSA not only could not believe that a white Australian could be a refugee, they wouldn’t entertain it,” he said. Out of frustration, Utah said, he made an impassioned speech at his refugee hearing, saying he was “sick to death of the cynical opinions of people in all countries in relation to who can and what can be a refugee … because at the end of the day … we’re all human.”
Utah’s lawsuit, filed in Federal Court in June and seeking $2.55 million, claims the two CBSA officers, Darryl Zelisko and Darryl Kane, allowed his refugee claim to stall for years in what “amounted to an abusive delay constituting a misfeasance in public office.”
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