Notes from a refugee board waiting room

Published August 25, 2010

This week I had the opportunity to spend a few hours in the waiting room at the Toronto Immigration and Refugee Board office on Victoria Street.

I would have liked to have been sitting in on the hearing of the friend, a refugee claimant, who had invited me. But when the judge learned I was a journalist, she asked me to leave despite my promises that nothing I heard in the hearing would be reported.

So...