PM’s words unlikely to stem flow of U.S. asylum seekers

Despite Justin Trudeau's recent admonitions, it will be hard to convince many migrants crossing the border that their odds of finding a haven are not better in Canada than in Donald Trump's United States.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau greets a Syrian refugee in 2015. His government has struck a more immigration-friendly tone than anything that has come out of the White House since Donald Trump's swearing-in, writes Chantal Hébert. The PM is now helping dispel myths that border-crossers will be welcomed to Canada with open arms and no questions asked.Adam Scotti photograph courtesy of the PMO

Opinion

BY CHANTAL HÉBERT

August 25, 2017

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travelled on Wednesday to Montreal—ground zero of the intense media coverage of the asylum-seeking issue—to try to unknit some of his own knitting. He met with the interprovincial task force set up to co-ordinate the logistics of the response to the influx of wou...

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