**Even Canada kisses the Mexican government's butts**

Mexican murder suspects afraid to cross border
Suspects in Mexican murders say Conservatives have done nothing to help them clear their names

Aug 28, 2007 04:30 AM
Richard Brennan
OTTAWA BUREAU

OTTAWA–Two Thunder Bay women say they remain prisoners in their own country because they are still suspects in the brutal murders of Domenic and Nancy Ianiero in Mexico 18 months ago.

Cheryl Everall, 33, and Kimberly Kim, 32, said yesterday the Conservative government has done nothing to clear their names, which they feel jeopardizes their freedom if they were to leave Canada.

Everall told the Toronto Star she is even afraid to travel to the United States to seek expert medical advice for her 5-year-old daughter Kayla's rare cell disorder, which could be fatal.

"The evidence is very clear. There is nothing that connects us to this crime ... and they (the federal government) know it," said Everall, a family medicine resident.

As it stands, both women live in fear their names are on a watch list and they could be held by U.S. officials and extradited to Mexico, even though they have not been officially charged with a crime.

The women have been accused by Mexican authorities of killing the Woodbridge couple, discovered with their throats slit in their hotel room in a tourist area near Cancun on Feb. 20, 2006.

The women were vacationing in the same resort.

Everall and Kim said they are eager to meet newly minted Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier, hoping he will get past the "lip service" that they say former minister Peter MacKay paid to their plight. MacKay has said he sympathized with the women.

"What we really need is some official documentation stating that we are okay to travel," Kim said. "We need a formal protest but once again they have not done that."

Bernier's office could not be reached for comment.

Everall noted that Thunder Bay residents often have no alternative but to fly to hospital in Duluth, Minn., with OHIP approval.

Liberal MP Dan McTeague (Pickering-Scarborough East), who has taken up the case for Kim and Everall, accused the Conservatives of being "lazy and dishonest" for promising to help the two women but doing nothing.

Everall said she can't believe the "disgusting" way they have been treated by the federal Tories, adding she suspects they are victims of a government not wanting to "rock the boat" with Mexico because of trade relations.

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