HALIFAX—A seriously ill woman will have a hearing in her hospital room Friday over her proposed deportation to England, despite the advice of her doctor who says she still needs months to recover from emergency surgery. Fliss Cramman was brought to Canada decades ago as a child and only recently became aware she was not a Canadian citizen. Darlene MacEachern, executive director of the Elizabeth Fry Society, says the Canada Border Services Agency plans to deport Cramman by Nov. 4, about three months after she suffered a perforated colon and was rushed to hospital from a Dartmouth jail where she was being held on drug offences. MacEachern said the group will be at Cramman’s bedside in the Dartmouth General Hospital for a hearing by the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. She said the society is calling on the federal government to show some compassion for a woman who MacEachern says has struggled with abuse, anxiety and chronic pain after being removed from her family at age 11.

Source: thestar September 23, 2016 16:18 UTC