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Givingthe Lai 遣返赖昌星 JOHNBAIRD, Canadas foreign minister, insists therewasno hidden political hand behind his governmentsdeportation on July 23rd ofLai Changxing to Beijing,where he was promptly arrested on charges relating toa multi-billion dollar smuggling ringwhich acted there with apparent officialconnivance in the 1990s. The Chinese authorities havebeen pressing Canada tohand over Mr Lai since 1999. The decision to do so, says Mr Baird,was takenfreely by an independent judiciary and we wouldnt and couldnt intervene. 加拿大外交部长John Baird，坚持认为加拿大政府对赖昌星的遣返背后没有政治操控。作为发生在九十年代的这场显然得到官方默许的数十亿美金走私大案的参与者，赖昌星7月 23号一到北京就立即被捕。中国当局从1999年开始就开始为赖昌星遣返而向加拿大施压。遣返的决定，Baird 先生说，是由法官独立作出的，我们不想也不能干预。 On theface of things, that is true. The federal court order of July 21st capped along legal battlebetween Mr Lai and the immigration authorities that began inJune 2000, when Canada decidedhe was not a legitimate refugee and issued adeportation order. His deportation came only afterhe exhausted every avenue ofappeal, of which there were many. 从表面上看，事实的确如此。联邦法院7月21号作出的这个决定是赖昌星和移民局漫长司法斗争的结果。早在2000年6月加拿大方面就已经拒绝赖昌星的难民申请并且启动了遣返程序。赖昌星曾经多次上诉，而每次上诉均被驳回，至此遣返才生效。 | 
