It’s time to suspend the Safe Third Country Agreement, and luckily it’s not hard to do

With the divergence of Trump and Trudeau's refugee policies, the fallout from this 2002 deal is now far worse than its architects could ever have imagined.

Demonstrators in Ottawa in January protest U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed travel ban for citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY JIM CRESKEY

February 24, 2017

OTTAWA—Canada’s Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States has something in common with a virus. It has remained dormant, apparently harmless, for years and then awakened unexpectedly to cause pain and grief. While now in the public eye, the agreement has lurked beneath the surface of ...

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