The growing culture of exclusion

In 1987, a Sri Lankan man pled guilty to conspiracy to traffic in a narcotic in a Canadian court. Upon his release, he filed a claim for refugee status. In 1993, the relevant tribunal found the man to be excluded from refugee status under Article 1F(c) of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees: drug trafficking was contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. The Supreme Court of Canada quashed the original decision, agreeing that conspiring to traffic drugs was not a violation of the purposes and principles of the United Nations.