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Douglas Todd: Half Of Indian Athletes Who Came To Canada Failed To Go Home
An Immigration Department report reveals more than 120 kabaddi players have either vanished, applied for refugee status or somehow obtained a Canadian work visa.
Instead, an internal Immigration Department report reveals more than 120 professional kabaddi players in a three-year period have either vanished within Canada, applied for refugee status or been able to obtain a work visa.
The kabaddi players, most of whom come from village teams in the Punjab region of India, come to Canada to play for about $50,000 through a season of large tournaments, especially in Surrey but also in Edmonton, Calgary and the Toronto suburb of Brampton, which has a large Punjabi population.