C. Health declining
D. Children's suffering
A. There are both objective and subjective reasons why both Leo Gunin and his wife are employed in
minimum wages works with no perspective and no chances to recover from incredible poverty.
Objective reasons are: 1) They have no status in Canada and because of that can not be employed as
professionals 2) Immigration's Canada persecutions require attention, time and excessive attempts to fix the
situation 3) By new and new persecutions Immigration Canada force Leo and Alla to spend the whole time on
paperwork, completing innumerous forms, writing answers, and so on; that is just one of thousands of obstacles
for better employment 4) Gunins are depressed by their immigration situation, they just can not think about
anything else 5) They are not eligible to attend any professional or language course until they have no status in
Canada 6) They are not eligible for any government and other employment assistance 7) Because of the
tremendous financial devastation they have no tools for a sophisticated job search 8) Leo's and Alla's real
employment history (curriculum vitae) in Israel and Canada reflects persecutions and rises potential employers'
questions, which can not be answered - because no employer will hire a persecuted person 9) Their health is
constantly declining; and so on... There are hundreds of other objective reasons.
Subjective reasons are: 1) Some suggestions could tell that Immigration intervenes in Leo's attempts to find a
better work, not recommending his potential employers to hire him 2) Without the status Leo can not get the
license to teach music, can not run his small busyness, can not be employed in his profession 3) When he
once received a request to compose music for a performance - and did it, - he was then rejected because "it is
not possible to have the name of somebody who's not accepted by the state on public place" 4) He once was
admitted to a Jewish choral, but later was refused "because if he could claim a refugee status from Israel, he's
an enemy of Israel"! 5) When the Russian school "Fillipok" (now renamed and called "Gramota") was in a
desperate need of a Russian speaking music teacher - even then Leo was refused on political ground 6)
Russian newspapers in Montreal refuse to publish not just his articles but even his adds; for example,
Info-Bulletin's editor/publisher told him that she lived many years in Israel, and Leo's articles published in
ex-USSR and in Israel with critics of the Israeli human rights situation abused her patriotism: that's why she
refused to place his adds! 7) All potential employers who could hire him as a musician used to say that they
knew or heard about his "anarchism" - and did not want to employ him because of that. When he responded
that he's not an anarchist or terrorist but a human rights activist they said that for them it is just the same 8) Leo
are refused even a voluntary performances, even without being paid. Rozhinsky, the organizer of the "Russian
Winter" musical festival, is permanently restricting Leo from the festival because of the political reasons 9) Leo
completed a course of security agents but was refused a license because of his immigration situation 10) Leo
was many times refused employment in computer technology, HTML programming, computer networks or
computer rooms maintenance, programs installation or software testing because he's "a kind of hacker or
terrorist". Nobody never told him where they obtained that referral from. Even such enterprises as Copie
Express refused to employ him! 11) Leo did thousands attempts to find a full time above minimum wage work
and was never hired. He believes that all such persecutions are somehow conducted from Immigration and
from Jewish environment 12) From all newspapers where Leo turned to as a journalist (such as Globe and Mail
- for example) he never received any answer or opinion about submitted articles; they just ignored him! Even
when he tried to reach the newspapers by telephone, he used to be disconnected! 13) Leo is one of probably
10 most important Russian vanguard poets in the world. However, an attempt to publish his book (for his own
money!) of poetry was turned away by a Russian publishing house. In the same time the above mentioned
Rozhinsky, who's not even a poet, rather an amateur on a primitively and law scale, published a book of his
"poetry" without any problem! 14) By suppressing and persecuting such a gifted, talented in many areas person
as Leo Gunin Canada lost an opportunity to use his talents, skills and abilities! Because Leo is a famous,
well-known personality, people will consider about Canada after attitude to him. Inhuman, cruel, humiliative
approach towards Leo and his family will speak by itself.
B. Financial disaster:
Because almost 6 years Gunins were refused the status in Canada, they had to pay more in taxes, pay for
various immigration programs, for employment and student authorization, for immigration lawyers, and so on.
