There couldn’t be a better time than now to cancel the Safe Third Country Agreement

What this clear and powerful decision does is give everyone concerned, and especially the Liberals and Conservatives, an out.

The July 22 Federal Court ruling, should the government choose not to fight it, does away with the sketchy and dangerous way of dealing with asylum seekers who are coming from the United States and sent back and detained, writes Jim Creskey. Flickr photograph by Chris Connelly

Opinion

BY JIM CRESKEY

July 29, 2020

It’s not often that a major court decision about a highly politicized topic turns out to be a gift to both the Liberals and the Conservatives. The trouble is that it is a gift in disguise and that neither party seems to know it. That was the case when Federal Court Judge Ann Marie McDonald ruled ...

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