Napoleon Gomez Urrutia a top Mexican union leader accused of embezzling millions of dollars is asking for Canadian politicians to take up his cause, is shown in Ottawa, Wednesday May 31, 2006. Urrutia has been meeting with Liberal, New Democrat and Bloc Quebecois MPs this week. The 60-year-old ousted head of the National Union of Miners and Metalworkers, or Los Mineros, wants the MPs to support his struggle to be reinstated in his homeland. (CP PHOTO/Fred Chartrand)