Justin Trudeau stressed that there are no "shortcuts" in Canada's immigration system and everyone is subject to the same rules.
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Trudeau said Canada continues to work with partners in the U.S. and around the world to spread that message, and talks continue on a possible update to the Safe Third Country agreement. That agreement requires asylum seekers to make their claim for protection in the first safe country they arrive in. The agreement makes an exception for those who arrive in Canada outside of official border points.
The question has been asked by Haitian asylum seekers who faced threats of deportation in the United States whether the Great Republic is really a Safe Third Country.
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is promising to end illegal border crossings by asylum seekers entering Canada outside official points, and says his government would focus on economic immigration and helping to protect the refugees in greatest danger.1
Singh is answering reporter questions.... he says he would suspend the safe third country agreement responding to Scheer's immigration announcement today #cdnpoli— David Thurton 🇹🇹🇨🇦 (@CBCDavid) October 9, 2019
Brian Hill of Global News reports that experts say Scheer’s plan to close border loophole ‘doomed to failure’
Sharry Aiken, a Queen’s University law professor, says any plan to scrap the loophole in the STCA without agreement from the U.S. is “doomed to failure.”
Meanwhile, she says expanding the agreement to cover the entire border is nonsensical because Canada does not have the resources to enforce this type of mass “securitization” of the border, nor is this type of strategy effective.2
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