Opinion Althia Raj: Justin Trudeau is changing his tune on a politically fraught border crossing
The prime minister is a bludgeoned leader back home in Quebec, where thanks to the voters there last election, he remains in power.suggests Liberal approval is down five points in Quebec from 31 per cent at the end of January to 26 per cent now, falling from first place ahead of the Bloc Québécois to nearly fighting off the third-place Conservatives . Off the Island of Montreal, in its surrounding communities, Liberals trail the Bloc by 20 points.
The second controversy is over Roxham Road, the unofficial border crossing that sees thousands of asylum seekers cross into Quebec by walking over a ditch. In January alone, the4,875 people. In December, it was 4,689. This time last year, it was 2,154. The numbers are steadily climbing and Quebec’s premier has had enough. François Legault has urged Trudeau to close the crossing, just as the federal government did at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Trudeau who “invited all those fleeing persecution, terror and war on Earth to come to Canada in January, 2017.” But boarding up the crossing will likely encourage asylum seekers to find other means of trespassing and may, as government officials suggest, just line the pockets of organized crime, working to smuggle people across the border.
“We are talking about women, children who cross this road, often in difficult conditions, having left their country in difficult conditions,” offered Trudeau’s Quebec lieutenant Pablo Rodriguez last October.
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