VANCOUVER - The Immigration and Refugee Board has ordered the deportation of an accused triad kingpin who came to Canada from Macau.
The ruling issued yesterday against Lai Tong Sang follows a three-day admissibility hearing that was held in March in Vancouver.
Board adjudicator Geoff Rempel says he has reasonable grounds to believe Lai was a key member of the Shui Fong triad, and its members committed crimes such as assaults and homicides that would be indictable in Canada.
Rempel says Lai, as a non-citizen, does not have an unqualified right to enter or stay in Canada and dismissed the man's argument that an inadmissibility order would violate his rights to liberty or security.
Despite the order, Lai's wife and three children, who accompanied him to Canada in 1996, will get to stay.
Lai did not attend the March admissibility hearing in person, and his wife and children are believed to live in Metro Vancouver.