David Aujla Lawyer
Victoria

About David Aujla Lawyer Victoria

His own father had arrived in Canada as an illegal immigrant on the night of November 14, 1930. With a forged Indian passport his father had walked off the ramp of a Shanghai steamer, slipping quietly past a solitary immigration officer onto the oily planks of Ogden Point in Victoria BC. He was only 23.

He had left his young wife and baby daughter in a small Indian village with his promise to return in two years after saving enough money. But that wasn’t to be. Because of his illegal status, his father became exiled in Canada, evading immigration officials for over nine years.

Authorities finally caught him in 1939, but withheld deportation because he, and others like him, had decided to mount a challenge.

Immigration warned him that if he lost his case, he would never be allowed to return to Canada. For the next eight years, Aujla’s father and...