‘We’re in the middle of shifting our system to deal with a lot more irregular migrants,’ says Trudeau
•This year’s federal budget gave the Immigration and Refugee Board an extra $74-million over the next two years to deal with the demands of the boom in 'irregular migration.'
•‘You will be sent home,’ the PM tells economic migrants eyeing asylum claims, but Conservative critic Michelle Rempel says the Liberals are trying to ‘normalize’ illegal border crossings.
•The IRB has hired 20 new staff, and plans to hire about 200 more in next few months. The extra funding will allow it to process at least 17,000 more asylum claims and 3,000 appeal cases, but it won’t be enough to allow the IRB to work through the more-than 57,000 cases currently on its plate in the next two years.
•The IRB processed 40 per cent more asylum claims last year than it had in 2016.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured leaving the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on June 20, and the Immigration and Refugee Board have tried to adapt Canada's asylum regime to better deal with the influx of thousands of people who have crossed the border in the past year. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
The key issues and people influencing Canadian foreign policy and diplomacy. Thursday.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives for the First Ministers Meeting in Ottawa on Jan. 15. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
We don’t have a final price tag for the project, but the feds have committed to $3.9-billion for a 'co-development phase' of the project, which won’t involve building any actual track or trains.
We don’t have a final price tag for the project, but the feds have committed to $3.9-billion for a 'co-development phase' of the project, which won’t involve building any actual track or trains.
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says 'it was a wake-up call for Europeans to hear what we’re going through' as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens Canadian sovereignty and potentially sparks a trade war. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade, illustration by Naomi Wildeboer
Former Canadian diplomat Colin Robertson says the world is returning to a ‘darker age for small- and medium-sized powers like Canada’ as Donald Trump has no interest in the U.S. safeguarding the global rules-based order.
Former Canadian diplomat Colin Robertson says the world is returning to a ‘darker age for small- and medium-sized powers like Canada’ as Donald Trump has no interest in the U.S. safeguarding the global rules-based order.