acknowledgments

Thanks first and foremost to God Almighty for His many blessings. Thanks to my wife Aisha and my entire family. Many thanks to my Editor Sharon Crawford for making my words sparkle. Thanks to my Publisher Trafford Publishing.

Thanks to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada and Minister of Public Works and Government Services for permission to reproduce Canada's annual Immigration figures and a quote from Janice Charrette, former deputy Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.

Special thanks to my physician Dr. Hinnawi; MD. West Way Medical Center, Toronto; my surgeons: Andre Gantous; MD. FRCS, St Joseph's Health Center, Toronto, Ralph Gilbert, MD. FRCS, Toronto General Hospital. Thanks to my Oncologist Brian O'Sullivan, MD, FRCPC, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto. Thanks to my Immigration Consultant, Sophia Yeboa and my Attorney, Joel Etienne. Thanks also to Warren Sheffer, of Hebb and Sheffer Law Firm, Toronto; for vetting some portion of the book.

Finally, I would like to make a disclaimer that none of the people, institutions and organizations I have thanked bears any responsibility for what I have written. I am indebted and grateful to all those who have let me in their lives. My thanks and apologies to any person, organization and institution that I have forgotten to mention.

For my beloved mother to whom I owed so much. May God Bless her Soul. And my beloved father. I miss him. May God bless his soul.