The bid by a former member of the Guyana Defence Force Coastguard to be granted refugee status in Canada—on the claim that his life was threatened after he was part of a team that made a cocaine bust—was quashed late last month, when a judge dismissed his application to have a removal decision reversed.
On June 27, Justice D G Near dismissed an application by the man for judicial review of a decision of the Refugee Protection Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board,
