You are a very thoughtful person.

 

Just a few days ago you made a video in which you described a situation in Canada that happened several years ago. You mentioned one of the things that I had the misfortune of mentioning when discussing this case as well as in many other cases – that your family and friends may be considered suspects within certain jurisdictions. What is your understanding of that and why are you so concerned about the situation of your daughter in Canada?

It is very easy to be scared of something you don't understand, no matter where in the world you live or who they are.

My family is American. We are Canadian citizens, but our country of birth is in the United States. The situation is very interesting, because we have three Canadian children. So when we moved here from Canada, I and some of my family were living in a rental house with two children. In Canada, I did it for work.

That was it, that's who I was. My wife is Canadian too. We did the same kind of arrangement with two American families. We did all the paperwork and all that, but we never left the States. I never left and now I am worried that she may be placed in the same category where there are other women and girls who are considered suspects because of the situations that we have experienced because of our lives that do not conform to Canadian law or US law.

The situation in the West with children born out of wedlock by a father who has a wife who is of unknown status, which could be a spouse, a niece, a cousin, an uncle – you don't just call that an uncle, in the case of your daughter, a cousin would be a person who might be in danger.

That's a whole separate issue and something I think needs to be looked at. As someone who was born in Canada and lived in the United States, the way that I am raising my kids is what I want. When they are around their peers who are raised by US-born spouses with US-born children in the household, it is very easy to be scared of something you don't understand. My parents, for example, if we are living together, are probably afraid that they are being taken advantage of. It doesn't matter if they are not – you would always be concerned because the idea that someone would just take advantage of someone's minor, it can happen.

What about being the mother of someone living in the United States illegally, or in the country illegally, or in any way being the