Cana­di­an vlog­ger Christo­pher “Chris Must List” Hugh­es says he is dis­ap­point­ed in his coun­try’s em­bassy and is now fear­ful for his life, af­ter he was ar­rest­ed twice last week.

Hugh­es, who is cur­rent­ly on bail af­ter be­ing charged in May with pub­lish­ing a sedi­tious state­ment, was held for al­le­ga­tions of mon­ey laun­der­ing and on a de­por­ta­tion or­der over the week­end.

Speak­ing on CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew yes­ter­day, Hugh­es said this week has been the hard­est of his life. He said he was even afraid of com­ing on the show, fear­ing he may be ar­rest­ed again.

But he said he was al­so “very dis­ap­point­ed” with the Cana­di­an High Com­mis­sion, ac­cus­ing of­fi­cials there of be­ing un­help­ful.

“I have no prob­lem in men­tion­ing my com­plete dis­ap­point­ment in Cana­da in this whole mat­ter. Their term, their quote is ‘we’re ob­servers. We’ll doc­u­ment what hap­pens but we will have no in­volve­ment.’

“To me, if I was Amer­i­can, the an­swer would have been com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent. The US would have stepped in and said some­thing. I talk to the em­bassy every day but it’s nev­er to help,” he al­leged.

In re­sponse, how­ev­er, the Cana­di­an High Com­mis­sion said it could not com­ment on Hugh­es’s le­gal woes.

“The High Com­mis­sion is aware of the case and we are pro­vid­ing con­sular as­sis­tance. Due to Cana­di­an pri­va­cy laws, we are un­able to com­ment fur­ther,” the High Com­mis­sion stat­ed.

Hugh­es must ap­ply to have his pass­port re­turned to him at his court hear­ing to­mor­row, and will al­so ap­peal to ap­pear vir­tu­al­ly rather than re­turn to the coun­try.

He lament­ed that his court mat­ter lasts for about 10 min­utes but get­ting his pass­port back takes weeks and maybe months. He said for a coun­try that does not want him here, “they are mak­ing it very dif­fi­cult for me to leave.”

He said he walks around with a cam­era, meets peo­ple and records the good, bad and ug­ly parts of T&T. He said if his re­cent trou­bles stemmed from his videos, he want­ed to know ex­act­ly what he did wrong.

“I’m film­ing, I am not break­ing any law, what law have I bro­ken? I chal­lenge him to show what law I have bro­ken be­cause be­fore my sedi­tion of­fence charge, I was al­so charged with gang-re­lat­ed charges (that) didn’t stick, three or four gang-re­lat­ed charges,” he said.

Hugh­es was re­spond­ing to Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds com­ment on Tues­day that his (Hugh­es) de­por­ta­tion or­der was signed af­ter he re­port­ed­ly con­tin­ued to make videos “of the na­ture com­plained of pre­vi­ous­ly.” As such, Hugh­es was deemed an “un­de­sir­able in­hab­i­tant” and his de­por­ta­tion was or­dered.

“I’m hav­ing night­mares at night, the po­lice break­ing in­to my house. What’s my next charge go­ing to be? What lengths will some­one go to, to tar­nish my name?

“Be­cause when this is all is said and done, all of these al­le­ga­tions are go­ing to re­main with me no mat­ter what coun­try I go to or try to go to,” he lament­ed.

Af­ter his ar­rest on Sat­ur­day, Hugh­es’ at­tor­neys went to the High Court and Jus­tice Robin Mo­hammed or­dered his im­me­di­ate re­lease from the Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre, where he spent two nights await­ing de­por­ta­tion.

“This night­mare is like it’s nev­er go­ing to end...un­til I get my pass­port, and I am on a flight in the air on my way to Cana­da,” Hugh­es said.