Scottish midwife faces deportation from Canada over English credentials
[From at least 1965, the Laurentian elite’s game plan is to replace Canada’s European founding/settler people with a Third World majority. Back in Pierre Trudeau’s time, immigration offices in the British Isles and Europe were closed — don’t want too many of THOSE sorts of people. Offices were opened in India and elsewhere. Recently, the Auditor-General reported as many as 150,000 fraudulent student visa applications in the invasion facilitated by son Justin Trudeau. The Immigration department was swamped, overwhelmed but, instead of shutting the doors, they simply threw up their hands. Not so with Scottish midwife Heather Gilchrist, a hardworking expert gainfully employed in Victoria. She is about to be deported because of a mix-up over her English language qualifications. You read that right: her English language qualifications. A hardworking, competent White Scot is not the sort of person our elite wants in Canada and, so, they are turfing her out.]
Scottish midwife faces deportation from Canada over English credentials
[From at least 1965, the Laurentian elite’s game plan is to replace Canada’s European founding/settler people with a Third World majority. Back in Pierre Trudeau’s time, immigration offices in the British Isles and Europe were closed — don’t want too many of THOSE sorts of people. Offices were opened in India and elsewhere. Recently, the Auditor-General reported as many as 150,000 fraudulent student visa applications in the invasion facilitated by son Justin Trudeau. The Immigration department was swamped, overwhelmed but, instead of shutting the doors, they simply threw up their hands. Not so with Scottish midwife Heather Gilchrist, a hardworking expert gainfully employed in Victoria. She is about to be deported because of a mix-up over her English language qualifications. You read that right: her English language qualifications. A hardworking, competent White Scot is not the sort of person our elite wants in Canada and, so, they are turfing her out.]
Tristin Hopper
25 Mar 2026
Just as Canada’s immigration system is wracked by revelations of unchecked fraud, it seems to have found time to threaten a Scottish midwife with deportation on the grounds she didn’t sufficiently prove she can speak English.
Heather Gilchrist, 58, speaks English as her mother tongue, and even completed the mandatory $330 certification course to prove as much.
But she told National Post a technical glitch prevented the certification from reaching immigration authorities, resulting in the surprise withdrawal of her work permit earlier this month.
A March 14 letter from an IRCC case officer told her they weren’t satisfied she could speak English, that her legal status had been withdrawn, and that she had 90 days to leave the country.
“If you do not leave Canada voluntarily, enforcement action may be taken against you,” it reads.
“I had just literally come off an on-call shift,” said Gilchrist, who has been working as a registered midwife in Victoria, B.C., since September.
A 10-year veteran of midwifery in the U.K., Gilchrist first came to Canada in October 2024, and obtained certification as a B.C. midwife after completing a bridging program at the University of British Columbia.
“I have hundreds of babies behind me, and I’m good at what I do,” said Gilchrist, who estimated that she’s spent $60,000 on the costs of moving to Canada and obtaining Canadian certification.
What’s suddenly put all of it in jeopardy is one of the most infamous components of the Canadian immigration process, at least for immigrants from Anglophone countries.
Most Canadian immigration streams require proof of a completed CELPIP (Canadian English Language
Proficiency Index Program). It’s a roughly three-hour test requiring the applicant to prove that they can read and understand English, and there is no exemption for the thousands of Canadian immigrants each year who speak it as a native tongue.
“It’s three-and-a-half hours of your life you’re never getting back,” said Gilchrist.
Gilchrist did indeed pass her CELPIP with flying colours. But in the online application for a post-graduate work permit, she says there was no prompt to submit it. As such, she assumed it was unnecessary, or that the test centre who administered her CELPIP had already forwarded the results to IRCC.
And Gilchrist wouldn’t be the first to say as much. Online immigration forums are filled with complaints from fellow post-graduate applicants saying that their permits were rejected due to technical difficulties in submitting a completed CELPIP.
“My PGWP was refused on March 10 due to missing language proficiency test result. I did attach the document but apparently it wasn’t shown in my application,” reads an anonymous March 18 post on a public Facebook group for post-graduate applicants.
A recent post on the website Justlaw details the experience of an immigrant in exactly Gilchrist’s situation: The sudden loss of work and residency status because of missing CELPIP results. “I did not see a clear option to upload language test documentation, so I was unaware that the score report had not been included in my application,” it reads.
The Ontario-based immigration consultancy Effizient Immigration encountered the problem so often that they profiled it in a Feb. 28 Youtube video. “Even though many applicants had completed the test before applying, the document was not uploaded correctly due to unclear instructions,” reads a description.
A Change.org petition calling out the CELPIP glitch has 1,600 signatures. It includes images of online IRCC application forms, showing that language results were not included in a checklist of required documentation.
“Many affected students had no way to attach the document in their application, nor were they given a second chance to submit it — even though the language test results predated the application date and were available if requested,” reads the petition.
As of press time, the problem doesn’t appear to have been fixed. The online form for a post-graduate work permit now features the warning “due to system limitations, the document checklist won’t ask you to provide language test results or proof that you graduated from an eligible field of study.”
Applicants are instead told to upload these documents as part of a “client information” portal that is separate from their application.
And due to technical difficulties, the documents can only be uploaded in the form of a single PDF. Uploading more than one will automatically delete the first.
For Gilchrist, she says the whole misunderstanding could have been patched up with a simple email from the IRCC; a notice of missing documentation, which she could have immediately forwarded in an email.
Instead, after 250 days of silence from the IRCC, the next she heard was that her application had been rejected and her residency status had been pulled effective immediately.
“Since you have not provided any documentation to demonstrate the minimum language proficiency, your application is refused,” reads the letter, signed by “Officer SV.”
The letter came far too late, said Gilchrist, to apply for a work permit via a different avenue. As such, she’s had to hand off her various midwife cases to co-workers and enter into a mad scramble to appeal the decision before she faces possible deportation in June.
“There’s something majorly wrong here. One hand does not know what the other hand is doing,” said Gilchrist. “I’m not asking for favours, I just want it to be fair.”
Gilchrist’s case has garnered headlines in both B.C. and Scottish media, but she says that so far, the only response she’s been able to obtain from the IRCC is a form letter informing her that she failed to prove her English proficiency.
“IRCC understands the disappointment that comes with a refused application. However, this office cannot provide any information or details regarding the reasons for a refusal other than the information provided in the refusal letter,” it reads.
Gilchrist’s sudden ejection from B.C. midwifing is awkwardly occurring amid a public push by the B.C. government to attract foreign talent into its health sector. In June, B.C. Health Minister Josie Osborne trumpeted a new program to fast-track the recruitment of “international” health professions, including doctors from the U.S.
“Since the campaign began, more than 2,250 doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses and allied health professionals have signed up for webinars and expressed interest in working in B.C.,” read a statement at the time.
It’s also ironically occurring amid a series of public scandals revealing the laxity of IRCC screening and processing. Just on Monday, an Auditor General’s report found that although more than 150,000 foreign nationals may have entered the country under fraudulent student visas in recent years, only 4,000 of those were ever investigated.
Gilchrist said she’s also reached out to Osborne, and to the office of Victoria Liberal MP Will Greaves, but to no avail. In the latter case, Greaves’ office told her “we do not have the authority to overturn or appeal decisions made by IRCC.”
Said Gilchrist, “it just takes one person to say this is outrageous, and fix it.” (National Post, March 25, 2026)
CRIME WATCH
Repeat sex offender was facing deportation
Montreal woman, 84, attacked in home
- National Post
- 25 Mar 2026
- Paul Cherry
[This is another story of the laziness or incompetence of Canada’s immigration system. Van Giao Do is a repeat sexual offender. As far back as 2011,Do, who is not a Canadian citizen, was ordered deported. Somehow, the authorities never got around to putting him on a plane. So, he offended again attacking and raping an 84-year-old Montreal woman for which he was recently sentenced to eight years in prison. Maddeningly, the government hid even his country of origin from public view: ”
“The name of Do’s country of origin was redacted from the parole board summary obtained by The Gazette newspaper, but it says that: “It is noted in your file that when you were two years old, your family ended up in a refugee camp after fleeing a war. Two years later, they settled in Canada.” As a linguist, there’s no mystery: it’s Vietnam. — Paul Fromm]”
MONTREAL • A man sentenced last week to an eight year prison term for sexually assaulting an 84-year-old woman in her Montreal home had been ordered to be deported from Canada years before he attacked the elderly woman in December.
Quebec Court Judge Thierry Nadon, who sentenced Van Giau Do, described what happened to the woman as “a veritable scene from a horror movie.”
Do, 44, has a criminal record that includes at least two previous convictions for sexual assault.
According to a Parole Board of Canada decision on Jan. 4, 2022, while he was serving a prison sentence for sexual assault, Do was a permanent resident of Canada who was facing deportation: “You are facing deportation proceedings with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). On November 8, 2011, a release order was issued against you and several conditions were imposed (while the removal order was pending).”
The name of Do’s country of origin was redacted from the parole board summary obtained by The Gazette newspaper, but it says that: “It is noted in your file that when you were two years old, your family ended up in a refugee camp after fleeing a war. Two years later, they settled in Canada.”
A spokesperson for the Canada Border Services Agency said Tuesday it would reply to a request for an update on what happened with Do’s removal order “as soon as possible.”
In the case of his most recent assault, Do broke into the elderly woman’s home on the night of Dec. 14.
The woman was home alone watching television. During a commercial break, she headed to her basement to tend to a load of laundry. As she was about to return upstairs, she saw Do standing in her home, nude from the waist down. He was only wearing a winter jacket.
Do threatened to rape the woman and then forced her into her bedroom, where he sexually assaulted her. He then began disconnecting telephone landlines around her home. The woman took advantage of a moment of distraction and fled to a neighbour’s house dressed only in her pyjamas.
FOUND IN YARD
When the Montreal police arrived, officers found Do running through the woman’s backyard and arrested him.
Last week, when Do was sentenced, the judge referred to Do’s criminal record as being among the factors that contributed to his eight-year sentence.
His record includes a 33-month sentence he received in 2019 for sexually assaulting a woman three times.
“The victim was an adult at the time of the offences, but you initiated contact with her when she was (a minor). The acts were described as highly intrusive and sexual in nature,” the author of the 2022 parole decision wrote.
“During the first incident, you ignored her refusal and her cries. Before the second assault, you gave the victim a pill, and she appeared to have no recollection of the events that followed. You used force to coerce the victim into sexual intercourse a third time, without her consent. Following this incident, she filed a complaint against you.”
PAROLE DECISION
The parole decision in 2022 revoked Do’s statutory release.
Offenders serving time in a federal penitentiary in Canada automatically qualify for a statutory release after they have served two thirds of their sentence.
Do automatically received his release on Nov. 5, 2021, and breached one of the conditions attached to it less than two weeks later when he ignored a curfew and did not report to a halfway house.
Do later told his parole officers that he left the halfway house because he was unable to sleep one night.
He blamed this on another offender’s snoring and a toothache.
He said the toothache caused him to go to a hospital, but he found the wait was too long.
He decided to self-medicate by going to a childhood friend’s house seeking something for the pain.
“You admitted to using a wide variety of drugs and said you ‘went a little overboard’ by using cannabis, crack, cocaine and alcohol,” the author of the parole decision wrote.
“Not wanting to return to the (halfway house) intoxicated, you spent the night at this friend’s house.”
| James Fulford’s medleys were a major part of our 25-year collaboration at VDARE. Here he reviews the developing War Against Easter–it’s a Thing, despite what the Regime Media says–our meditations on political and spiritual resurrection, and VDARE’s crucifixion by NYAG Letitia James. Subscribe to James’ Substack! And Happy Easter to our loyal readers. |
The War On Easter, 2026—And The War On VDARE.com
| James FulfordApr 5 |
The War on Christmas was first Noticed back in the 1990s, but the War on Easter has developed much more recently. Specifically, I first reported the surreptitious substitution of something called the “Spring Bunny” for the Easter Bunny as recently as 2010. Now the darn thing is hopping around everywhere—part of the mounting attack on the Historic American Nation and its symbols.
This year, if you Google “spring bunny” in Google News, or “spring egg hunt” you’ll see that all over America, teachers and community center types are being told not to say ”Easter” when they have a children’s Easter Egg Hunt.
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Here’s what’s happening in Berkeley, CA this year:
The City of Monrovia, CA is also holding one:
Recently Disney changed from Easter to Spring Bunny at Disney World:
It’s pure Leftist ”Culture War” stuff›—the kind of thing the makes schools rename Christmas “Winter Break”—and it’s the kind of thing Peter Brimelow and I fought at VDARE for almost 25 years. Sadly, this is the second anniversary of this announcement on VDARE by Peter Brimelow: “IT IS FINISHED”—NYAG Letitia James Crucifies VDARE.com.
VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow writes:
I launched VDARE.com on Christmas Eve 1999. So it is perhaps appropriate that, on Good Friday 2024, the anniversary of Christ’s death, I must announce VDARE.com’s crucifixion by New York State’s communist Attorney General Letitia James.
On March 27, 2024, in another of her lightning-fast NYAG James-compliant rulings, New York State Supreme Court Judge Sabrina Kraus held us in Contempt of Court because we have not yet complied (because we were fighting it) with her January 23, 2023 order that we meet NYAG James’ massive and crippling subpoena demands.[Read the whole thing]
VDARE.com remains suspended, and Peter Brimelow is still battling with Letitia James’s minions in court over VDARE.com—and I still don’t have a full-time job. That’s why I have to make an Easter Appeal for paid subscriptions to my readers. I really need the money. I had the same job for VDARE for over 20 years, and I could use the skills I used on VDARE, and am still using for this Substack to write for mainstream publications or at least mainstream conservative publications, but the SPLC’s attacks on VDARE render me unemployable in most such outlets, because if they did hire me, they’d be accused of “platforming” someone hateful.
In a 2011 post asking for money to support VDARE.com, and my former salary, I compared my pre-VDARE financial condition to Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol:
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If some more of you can convert to paid subscriptions (above) I can upgrade to Bob Cratchit levels of financial security, and you get a chance to be a patron of the arts.
Whether you managed a paid subscription or not, I want to wish you all a Happy Easter once again
Our Minority Coddling Courts Reduce 24-year Jail Sentence for Fraudster from Sierra Leone Who Conned Seniors Out of $140,000 to Less Than Two Years House Arrest
Fraudster stole nearly $140K from seniorsCalgary HeraldTARA BRADBURY1 Apr 2026•
A man who defrauded seniors in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia out of nearly $140,000 in a “grandparent scam” will serve just under two years of house arrest after the court reduced what initially totalled a 24-year sentence.Charles Gillen, 25, also has four years to pay back the stolen money that was never recovered.“Fraud schemes perpetrated against the elderly are despicable criminal actions that amount to an abuse of seniors,” Chief Justice Raymond Whalen said, noting elderly people are more frequently the target of such scams. Gillen was sentenced in the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador in St. John’s on Monday, on 16 fraud charges tied to scams carried out in early 2023 against victims aged 70 to 88.Royal Newfoundland Constabulary officers arrested Gillen on a plane at St. John`s airport that was ready to take off for Montreal. He was carrying more than $31,000 in cash in his wallet, an envelope and a sock. Investigators later recovered another $36,440 from boxes he had already shipped to Quebec.His elderly victims received a phone call from someone posing as a grandchild or another young relative in urgent legal trouble, who told them they needed thousands of dollars in cash for bail.A “lawyer” then came on the line and instructed the senior to withdraw cash and hand it over to a “bondsman” who would visit their home. He warned the seniors not to tell anyone because of a court-ordered “gag order.”All those who met with the “bondsman” gave a description that matched Gillen. The court has accepted that Gillen’s role in the scam was limited to that, and others involved in the fraud have not been identified.Three of the seniors wrote victim impact statements describing feeling vulnerable, embarrassed, and fearful to answer the phone or door. They said they were worried about their grandchildren’s safety and their own financial security, and struggled with losing their savings.Gillen also addressed the court, apologizing to the victims and the community and saying he had committed the crimes as a broke university student who had made a bad decision. He said his own grandparents had raised him to do better.Prosecutor Mark James sought a prison term of 42 to 45 months and defence lawyer Andrea Vizsolyi argued for a 16- to 34-month period of house arrest.On Monday, the judge said he would impose a sentence of 18 consecutive months for each of Gillen’s individual charges, for a total of 24 years.Under the principle of totality in Canadian law — which ensures an offender sentenced for multiple crimes at once does not receive an unduly harsh overall sentence when the individual terms are added together — Whalen reduced that overall sentence to four years.The judge then deducted time as follows:❚ Pre-trial custody: Gillen received credit for 295 days spent on remand, calculated at the standard rate of 1.5 days for each day served❚ Harsh jail conditions: His sentence was reduced by an additional 200 days due to exceptionally bad conditions at Her Majesty’s Penitentiary, including inadequate facilities, overcrowding and experiences of racism❚ Harsh bail conditions: A further 100 days were deducted to account for restrictive bail conditions the judge found to be punitive, including the wearing and expense of an ankle monitor for two years Gillen has 718 days left to serve. Whalen accepted information presented by an Impact of Race and Culture Assessment, a pre-sentencing report prepared for Black and other racialized offenders that provides the courts with information about the person’s background.He did not accept, however, that there was a link between Gillen’s crimes and his life experiences, which include coming to Winnipeg with his grandparents as refugees from Sierra Leone after losing both his parents in war, and experiencing racism and discrimination while growing up and as a university student.“He was motivated by sheer greed and drawn by a promise of easy money,” the judge said.Gillen’s moral culpability is very high, Whalen said, and the sentence must properly denounce the crime. Whalen granted the defence’s request for Gillen to serve the remaining time on house arrest in Manitoba, so he can work to pay back $70,455 of the victims’ money that was not recovered.One of the conditions is that he live with his grandparents.
Quebec Immigration Minister Jean François Roberge is facing backlash after defending tighter immigration control with a controversial statement.
He said Quebec does not aim to “become India” but instead compared the province to Switzerland, adding that it is better to have a smaller, wealthier population than a larger, poorer one.
The remarks have sparked criticism from many who view them as offensive and discriminatory, while others say they reflect concerns around population growth and economic sustainability.
The debate is now raising broader questions about immigration policy, language, identity, and the direction Quebec wants to take.
NDP Clown Show: Far-Left Liberals Fight Over Colored ‘Equity Cards’ While Canada Burns
Far-left NDP delegates at their 2026 leadership convention in Winnipeg turned a simple debate into a pathetic game of victimhood poker, waving around rainbow “equity cards” to decide who gets to speak first based on identity points. These self-proclaimed champions of the working class spent their time bickering over whose oppression scorecard ranked higher instead of talking about fixing Canada’s collapsing economy, skyrocketing housing costs, or endless immigration chaos.
In the video, one woman clutching her gender equity card whined: “I was standing here with my gender equity card before you called on the previous speaker. That’s my point of privilege…”
Another jumped in, admitting the whole charade is worthless in the real world: “I want everyone to be mindful that these cards for individuals like myself who identify as a black woman have no value outside of this space.”
Classic. These far-left liberals built a hierarchy of made-up privileges, complete with colored cards for gender, race, and every other grievance category, only for it to devolve into petty line-cutting arguments. One side demands priority for “cis” women or whatever the latest label is, while the other reminds everyone their special pink or green card means zilch once they step outside their safe-space bubble.
This is what happens when socialists ditch merit, common sense, and actual policy for endless intersectional scorekeeping. They mock conservatives for focusing on real issues like jobs, borders, and freedom, yet here they are at their big leadership powwow—where they just crowned Avi Lewis—fighting over who gets the microphone based on skin color and pronouns. Good to see Canada’s socialist fringe arguing over the issues that really matter, like whose fictional “point of privilege” trumps the next guy’s.
Meanwhile, ordinary Canadians deal with Trudeau-era wreckage: unaffordable life, weak leadership, and a country sliding into irrelevance. The NDP’s solution? Hand out more cards and pretend it’s progress. These radicals aren’t building a better nation—they’re auditioning for the world’s most embarrassing reality show. Canada deserves better than this woke circus.