The Ministry of Immigration should have apologised to a Canadian construction worker whose work permit was unlawfully revoked after a row with a Government MP, an Opposition party critic charged.

Curtis Macleod is free to return to Bermuda and work out the remaining seven months of his contract after he won his Supreme Court appeal of the Minister of Immigration’s decision — though the Government has the right to reconsider the matter.

But Shadow Minister of Labour Trevor Moniz said Minister Derrick Burgess should have apologised for the “shameful” and “vindictive” way Mr. Macleod was treated.