Noted, for the record. From Vancouver Sun, 9 June 2011 -
An east Vancouver couple are being accused of forcing a woman into domestic slavery after police found a Filipino woman illegally living in the couple’s home.
Vancouver police investigated and found the woman was being exploited after she was brought to Vancouver from Hong Kong by the couple in 2008.
“The woman was forced into domestic services and was working 24 hours a day, allegedly seven days a week, caring for the family,”
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Oi Ling Nicole Huen and Franco Yiu Kwan Orr have been each charged, under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, with human smuggling and human trafficking.
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The couple’s $1.39-million home on Grant is currently up for sale.
Huen, a realtor at the Richmond branch of Magsen Realty, became licensed in November 2009, according to the Real Estate Council of B.C.
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I sent her an e-mail asking to view the property and if I could see the room where she kept her slave locked up… She replied –
Nicole Huen to me
show details Jun 8 (5 days ago)
“Please do not jump the result. It is not my home in the first place. We are just ask you to be patient and the truth will come out. Why not listen to the other side with hard evidence?
What is our motive? Why should we risking our life and our kids for this kind of action? What is our benefit? On the other hand, what is her motivate? what will be her benefit? Why is she doing that when we threated her like a friend? The truth will come out and I just wanted you to show some respect; as we have been respect her when she stayed with us. Thank you for your attention!”
nice LuLz – you can take it further, though, i believe in you
“we threated her like a friend” perhaps the greatest contextual typo ever made.
that’s no typo, my friend – that’s a full on freudian slip.
here’s a classic http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xeynin_lapsus-dati-confond-inflation-et-fe_news
and of course,
Well I honestly think in her mind, giving this person a place to live and food to eat in exchange for being a personal maid 24/7 is doing a great humanitarian work on her part and saying thank you every once in a while is treating the maid as a friend. After all, she already helped getting this person out of that hellhole Phillipines and into the best world on Earth where she has a chance to live the Canadian dream. What could anyone be possibly complain about? That how these people really thinks.
moral relatavisim
that’s two cases in a month – how many more are there??
[Actually, I think this is the first and only case this month (TTBOMK). -ed.]
http://thelinkpaper.ca/?p=6765
read it and weep (literally)
this falls within the 4 week window of a ‘month’ in my books, apologies
[We hadn't seen this, thanks for the link; we stand corrected.
We agree with your definitions re month/4 weeks.
Mercifully, in this case, the individual accused of being a slaver wasn't a realtor. -ed.]
ah, but can you name the other commonalities in both cases?
who will be the first to touch the third rail?
Some ladies be [expl.del. -ed.]?
My apologies for previous language and placement. I was responding to Pollyana’s “third rail” question. I should have simply said; the people under investigation for the alleged crimes are both females.
Speaking of realtors, spot the Vancouver realtor on this board of directors:
http://www.sinoforest.com/management.asp
Two seemingly unrelated businesses at the intersection between Chinese wealth creation, Canadian governance, greed, and inflated asset prices. Of course, as Nicole Huen points out, nothing is proven yet.
ah sinoforest.. too funny – i love the weird attempts by paid media to paint this as the fault of short-sellers, and that short-sellers are conspiring to bring this fine company down, etc. etc. etc.
don’t think the party isn’t involved in every company, because sooner or later, they are, especially if they succeed.
Ah i believe you’re speaking of Mr. Mak
i particularly enjoy the brief bio of the CEO, Mr. Chan:
In 2008, Mr. Chan was appointed to join the Jiangxi Standing Committee of the Tenth Session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (“CPPCC”). CPPCC’s government and non-government members discuss Chinese policies and principles. Its role and powers are somewhat analogous to an advisory legislative upper house. Also in 2008, Mr. Chan was appointed as Council Member of Renmin University of China (“RUC”, also known as the People’s University of China) for a three-year term.
totally not in the party
While our first concern is for the former slave herself, we are all victims of this. We all to compete with slave labour, and owners of slave labour. Its a huge economic advantage for those who own it. The Egyptians used it for their pyramids and the Americans for their cotton industry. Another reason to tightened-up entry to our country.
spoken like a true marxist!! STOP HOLDING NOBLE CAPITAL BACK