What if Joe Biden doesn’t want to close Roxham Road? Canada needs a Plan B
The federal government has two possible paths out of the dead end at Roxham Road. The first route goes through Washington, D.C. – and is largely out of Ottawa’s hands. The second goes through Ottawa – and is entirely within Canada’s control. The best option? Pursuing both paths, simultaneously.
Canada’s immigration system has some of the world’s widest doors, but also among the tallest walls. That’s not a contradiction: Public support for the open door, in the form of high and sharply rising immigration, is bolstered by the walls. Three oceans and a battery of bureaucratic ramparts make it so that immigrants and even refugees generally don’t get to choose Canada unless Canada chooses them.
The STCA was designed as another brick in the bureaucratic wall, covering the 8,900-kilometre border with the U.S. If someone comes to an official land crossing and asks to apply for asylum, they will be sent back to the U.S. to make their refugee claim. But Canada can only send refugee claimants back if the U.S. is willing to take them, and Washington has so far only agreed to accept the return of refugee claimants who crossed from the U.S. at an official crossing.
All of which is why the government had better have a Plan B. The best one, and maybe the only one, involves reforming and rethinking Canada’s refugee-determination system, and probably pouring a lot more money into it, so that it works faster and reaches decisions sooner. That won’t be easy, but it is within Ottawa’s power.
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