NDP, Greens call for end to Safe Third Country Agreement after migrants die crossing St. Lawrence River

The STCA runs counter to international refugee law and Canada's obligations towards refugees, and 'is just offensive to basic principles of the rights of refugees,' says Green Party Leader Elizabeth May.

NDP MP Jenny Kwan, left, Seidu Mohammed, centre, the asylum seeker who lost his fingers to frostbite after crossing the border in December 2016, and NDP MP Leah Gazan at a news conference in Emerson, Man., on April 3, 2023.Photograph courtesy of NDP MP Jenny Kwan

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

April 17, 2023

Both the federal New Democrats and the Greens are calling on the federal government to immediately scrap the now-expanded 2004 Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) with the United States following the tragic deaths earlier this month of two families who drowned in the St. Law...

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