PNG angry over Canada's treatment of dancers
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The governor of Papua New Guinea's Eastern Highlands province, Malcolm Kela Smith, says he will make a formal protest to the United Nations over Canada's treatment of a group of dancers.
The six dancers were refused entry at Vancouver International Airport earlier this month and sent home after officials decided they were in the country as migrant workers, and not visitors as they claimed.
Governor Smith, who led the dancers as part of a cultural exchange, has vowed he will make it tough for Canadian companies wanting to explore oil and gas in PNG.
He says the group was interrogated for six hours by Canadian customs officials and treated like criminals.
Pacific Magazine says it is believed Papua New Guinea's foreign minister has sent a letter of protest to Ottawa.
