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Massimo Marti’s wife and four children are back in Canada following his wife’s deportation in March 2013 due to an expired temporary resident permit.
But it’s still uncertain whether the family, whose story was first told in the Public Citizen the day the mother and children were deported to Italy, will be allowed to remain in Canada permanently. Marti’s work permit expires in March, though he is planning to apply to have it extended to its limit of another year. He would then apply for permanent resident status. But those plans hinge on whether his wife, Vittoria Toscana, will be granted a temporary work permit in the coming days as her current visitor’s visa expires near the end of the October.
Immigration and the Canada Border Services Agency still appear unwelcoming to the couple. There have been a series of incidents going back to early 2013 that Marti and his supporters feel are bullying tactics by the two federal bodies.
Toscana, 31, and the couple’s children — Santo, 11, Giovanni, 8, Maria, 6 and Paolo, 4 (the two youngest were born in Ottawa) — were detained at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Dorval for four or five hours on Aug. 30 before they were allowed to reunite with Marti, who was waiting at the terminal. Marti, 41, says his wife was asked numerous questions, which he says seems ridiculous given that the CBSA has their case on file.
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Marti says his wife eventually protested, saying her children were very anxious to see their father, and the waiting game being forced on them at the airport was making it worse. He says his wife asked the CBSA agent who was grilling her to tell her whether were going to be allowed to leave or sent back to Italy.
And Marti doesn’t know what to make of his wife being given only a two-month visitor’s visa by Immigration, Their Italian-born children were given six. Though her application for a temporary work permit has been submitted, the document has to be granted in just over two weeks or she will be forced to return to her homeland.
Marti says he also doesn’t understand the treatment. He says his dream is to give his children a better life in Canada. The couple and their first two children first arrived in Ottawa from Italy in 2008.
Marti feels he is already making a significant contribution to this country as he employs six people at the Little Italy Bakery, which he opened in 2011. He says business is thriving — he sometimes works 18-hour days — and he needs to open a bigger shop and hire more people, but that plan is on hold. “I’m not expanding because I’m not sure whether they will let me stay.”
Marti won a couple of major victories against the CBSA in his fight to remain in Canada. Not long after Toscana’s March 1, 2013 deportation — which seemed underhanded given that she was still within a 90-day period to apply for an extension on her expired temporary status — Marti appeared before the immigration board and convinced it that he wasn’t working illegally at the bakery as the border service contended. Though his work permit had expired in 2012 — Marti had reapplied for a new one through a Toronto lawyer, who repeatedly erred on the applications — he said he helped with chores at the bakery because it was struggling at the time. But he did not pay himself.
The immigration board also ruled that as Marti specialized in cuisine and bread from the southern Italian region of Calabria, he would not be taking a job away from a Canadian.
On March 19, 2013, just days after the immigration board ruling, Marti was charged by Ottawa police — at the urging of the CBSA — with careless storage of firearms. The charge stems from a CBSA visit to Marti’s Nepean home on Jan. 24, 2013, after he was pulled over by agency officers for not having the valid work permit.
A search of his house — without a warrant — turned up six hunting rifles. The baker, an avid deer and moose hunter, had a firearms acquisition certificate from the RCMP. The defence’s contention was that the rifles were properly stored and that the lock on the gun safe had been pried open.
Last May, following three pre-trial hearings and the judge raising concerns that the case was weak and a waste of court time, the Crown decided against pursuing the charge.
The family was meeting with Italian Ambassador Gian Lorenzo Cornado Thursday afternoon to express their gratitude for his moral support through their ordeal.
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But it’s still uncertain whether the family, whose story was first told in the Public Citizen the day the mother and children were deported to Italy, will be allowed to remain in Canada permanently. Marti’s work permit expires in March, though he is planning to apply to have it extended to its limit of another year. He would then apply for permanent resident status. But those plans hinge on whether his wife, Vittoria Toscana, will be granted a temporary work permit in the coming days as her current visitor’s visa expires near the end of the October.
Immigration and the Canada Border Services Agency still appear unwelcoming to the couple. There have been a series of incidents going back to early 2013 that Marti and his supporters feel are bullying tactics by the two federal bodies.
Toscana, 31, and the couple’s children — Santo, 11, Giovanni, 8, Maria, 6 and Paolo, 4 (the two youngest were born in Ottawa) — were detained at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Dorval for four or five hours on Aug. 30 before they were allowed to reunite with Marti, who was waiting at the terminal. Marti, 41, says his wife was asked numerous questions, which he says seems ridiculous given that the CBSA has their case on file.
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Marti says his wife eventually protested, saying her children were very anxious to see their father, and the waiting game being forced on them at the airport was making it worse. He says his wife asked the CBSA agent who was grilling her to tell her whether were going to be allowed to leave or sent back to Italy.
And Marti doesn’t know what to make of his wife being given only a two-month visitor’s visa by Immigration, Their Italian-born children were given six. Though her application for a temporary work permit has been submitted, the document has to be granted in just over two weeks or she will be forced to return to her homeland.
Marti says he also doesn’t understand the treatment. He says his dream is to give his children a better life in Canada. The couple and their first two children first arrived in Ottawa from Italy in 2008.
Marti feels he is already making a significant contribution to this country as he employs six people at the Little Italy Bakery, which he opened in 2011. He says business is thriving — he sometimes works 18-hour days — and he needs to open a bigger shop and hire more people, but that plan is on hold. “I’m not expanding because I’m not sure whether they will let me stay.”
Marti won a couple of major victories against the CBSA in his fight to remain in Canada. Not long after Toscana’s March 1, 2013 deportation — which seemed underhanded given that she was still within a 90-day period to apply for an extension on her expired temporary status — Marti appeared before the immigration board and convinced it that he wasn’t working illegally at the bakery as the border service contended. Though his work permit had expired in 2012 — Marti had reapplied for a new one through a Toronto lawyer, who repeatedly erred on the applications — he said he helped with chores at the bakery because it was struggling at the time. But he did not pay himself.
The immigration board also ruled that as Marti specialized in cuisine and bread from the southern Italian region of Calabria, he would not be taking a job away from a Canadian.
On March 19, 2013, just days after the immigration board ruling, Marti was charged by Ottawa police — at the urging of the CBSA — with careless storage of firearms. The charge stems from a CBSA visit to Marti’s Nepean home on Jan. 24, 2013, after he was pulled over by agency officers for not having the valid work permit.
A search of his house — without a warrant — turned up six hunting rifles. The baker, an avid deer and moose hunter, had a firearms acquisition certificate from the RCMP. The defence’s contention was that the rifles were properly stored and that the lock on the gun safe had been pried open.
Last May, following three pre-trial hearings and the judge raising concerns that the case was weak and a waste of court time, the Crown decided against pursuing the charge.
The family was meeting with Italian Ambassador Gian Lorenzo Cornado Thursday afternoon to express their gratitude for his moral support through their ordeal.
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