Thank you for all those that support the Moran's on this. It's a terrible situation, our government has failed the Moran's, a young Canadian couple born and raised in our country. They deserve and need our support. Thank you to everyone that has signed this petition, if your just reading this update now and have not signed we ask that you do to show your support, also please share with your networks, and read all the updates , all diplomatic efforts have failed at this point, it is good that Steve Clark the MPP in our community, Clark & Kim's hometown, is doing what he can to bring additional awareness, thank you Tim & Megan
Let's www.BringAyoHome.com for Christmas and reunite this family
@HCameronGH let's move this along, the 22nd is the last day for flight for a Christmas reunion.
Tim & Megan
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
https://www.recorder.ca/news/local-news/bring-ayo-home-clark
Wayne Lowrie's article Recorder & Times Published on: December 20, 2018 3:44pm
Local MPP Steve Clark has added his voice to calls for the federal government to allow a Canadian couple to bring their adopted son home from Africa.
To end what he called a “terrible injustice,” Clark urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to cut through red tape and allow Clark and Kimberlee Moran to bring their toddler to Canada from Ghana.
“The bureaucratic nightmare Clark and Kimberlee have been going through is absolutely heartbreaking,” Clark said in a statement in the legislature.
“The agonizing delay is taking a terrible toll on the family.”
The Morans, who live in Abbotsford, B.C., have been fighting with the Canadian High Commission in Ghana for five months to allow their son into Canada.
Clark, MPP for Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes, urged Ottawa to give young Ayo a temporary visa to allow him to come home for Christmas.
Clark Moran, who grew up in Brockville, is now in Ghana with Ayo while he waits for the High Commission to process the application. He had to fly to Accra last month to relieve Kimberlee, who had been waiting in Ghana.
Kimberlee’s multiple sclerosis had flared up, forcing her to fly back to B.C. for treatment.
Clark noted that the plight of the family has been national news, but the federal government “remains unmoved” and has failed to support the Morans.
“I’m calling on Prime Minister Trudeau and the minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Ahmed Hussen, to finally do the right thing,” Clark said. “In the spirit of Christmas, I implore the prime minister and Minister Hussen to have a heart. Act now and reunite this little boy with the family that loves him so dearly.”
The Morans went through a three-year approval process for an international adoption, but the Canadian High Commission is stalling the Morans from bringing their child home in the final stage of the process, according to Rick Moran of Brockville, who is Clark Moran’s father and grandfather of Ayo.
The Ghana process usually takes 10 to 14 days, but Kim or Clark have been waiting in Accra since Aug. 1 without explanation from the High Commission, Rick Moran said recently.
The Morans adopted in Nigeria and satisfied all of the requirements of the Nigerian government before travelling to the nearest High Commission in Ghana. It was there that the process stalled.
Clark urged the federal government to act in time to bring Ayo home for Christmas.
“It’s never too late to do the right thing,” Clark said.
Citizenship and Immigration Canada has told Postmedia Network it could not comment on the case without a signed consent form from the Morans. "
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"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph." ~ Haile Selassie