Roxham Road

Trudeau said the only way to “effectively” close the Roxham Road crossing is to renegotiate the Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States.

Fraser echoed Trudeau’s concerns of migrants flowing to other irregular crossings, adding the Safe Third Country Agreement needs renegotiating. Federal statistics show that more than 39,000 people claimed asylum after they were intercepted by the RCMP crossing Canada’s land border into Quebec in 2022, compared with only 369 in the rest of the country. [could be closed without violating the Safe Third Country Agreement](https://globalnews.ca/news/8826592/quebec-legault-roxham-road-closure-feds/) with the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, and urged the government to do so again. The premier also pitched other provinces to take in some of those migrants. President Joe Biden, and to renegotiate the agreement. to make their claim in the first country they arrive in, and forbids them from first arriving in one country and then making a claim in another. The Safe Third Country Agreement requires asylum seekers arriving in Canada or the U.S. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called on the federal government Tuesday to close the Roxham Road border crossing within 30 days. “If Pierre Poilievre wants to build a wall at Roxham Road, someone could do that. … People will choose to cross elsewhere,” he said. “We’re making real progress, but until we manage to do that, we need to continue to support our immigration system. During that time, the entire Canada-U.S.

The path has allowed tens of thousands of refugees to enter Canada, prompting calls from Quebec Premier, Opposition Leader to close it.

“Mr. Legault said that Mr. In his column, Mr. On Tuesday, Mr. Trudeau’s government should send the message loud and clear: would-be migrants shouldn’t come via Roxham Road anymore,” Mr. “The basic problem is the Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States, which made it possible to open this breach in the border. Poilievre told a news conference on Parliament Hill said Mr. If Pierre Poilievre wants to build a wall at Roxham Wall, someone could do that,” he said, adding the result would be people crossing elsewhere. “Could someone put up barricades and a big wall? The issue appears likely to be in play next month when U.S. “Those are conversations ongoing with the United States,” he said. Trudeau said talks on the issue are focused on the Canada-U.S.

Closing that road would only encourage asylum seekers to use another forested path, the prime minister says.

- But the agreement doesn’t apply to people who illegally cross into Canada outside of a border station, most of whom are not prosecuted because they file an asylum claim. “Those are ongoing conversations with the Americans that are continuing to progress.” “For years, we have been focused on closing Roxham Road. Back to video

Quebec politicians have been calling for the unofficial crossing on the border between Quebec and New York state to be closed. And Conservative Leader Pierre ...

But now, Mr. Trudeau has essentially admitted he won’t do anything until Mr. And as Mr. Those are things debated by American politicians, who argue about harsher rules to discourage asylum-seekers from trying to enter the U.S. But the real question is what they would do. Canadian governments have tried for years to get the U.S. Mr. Poilievre – and most politicians – don’t want to specify. When People’s Party Leader Maxime Bernier was running for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 2017, he proposed sending the military. And there is palpable frustration when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau essentially says he’s got nothing other than time to wait for U.S. They want migration to be safe and orderly. And Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has called for the feds to do so within 30 days.