And even with permission, it took nearly 12 months for them to tell anybody about it
Roxham Road came into existence largely because of a loophole in the Safe Third Country Agreement, a 2004 treaty that commits Canada to turning away refugee claimants from the U.S. on the grounds that they’re already in a “safe country.” But the treaty didn’t apply if the asylum-seeker entered Canada illegally and then made an “inland” claim.
As to why the Trudeau government kept the new treaty a secret for more than 11 months, the official explanation is that Roxham Road would have been overwhelmed by last-minute crossings. As U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Cohen said in aan earlier announcement would have caused “a large influx of migrants trying to get to Canada before that change went into place.” In a subsequent interview on CBC’s Power & Politics, Cohen said that the deal needed time to undergo an administrative review.
But there’s nothing in the agreement that would have prevented Canada from unilaterally shutting down an unlawful entry point onto its sovereign territory.
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