The Parti Québécois (PQ) is calling for the closure of Roxham Road, this entryway into Canada for irregular immigration.
A record number of entries have been recorded since the route reopened in November, or 8,000 asylum applications, Radio-Canada reported.
We, in the first three months of the year, were at 7,000 entries and we are close to reaching 10,000 entries.said PQ MP Pascal Bérubé, in a press scrum Tuesday morning at the National Assembly. That’s over 90% of illegal entry into Canada. That can’t go on.
On his side, PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon argues that the federal government has deliberately reopened Roxham Road knowing full well that Quebec does not have the aggregation capacity to accommodate the flood of arrivals. .
” The mess and probably deliberate. This was meant as long as the Quebec Government requested a completely different management of Roxham Road. “
Mr. Bérubé requested that the federal government open another entry point for irregular immigration to Ontario.
Why is this happening in Quebec? Obviously no sensitivity [du fédéral] with regard to integration skills, then French. Ottawa doesn’t care.
An asylum application
Under the Safe Third Country Agreement, which took effect in 2004, Canada and the United States recognize each other as safe places where to seek refuge and protection.
In practice, this means that Canada may renounce a potential refugee who arrives at land ports of entry along the Canada-US border, as that refugee must pursue their asylum claim in the United States, where they originally arrived.
This agreement prompted asylum seekers to take Roxham road in Montérégie, as this passage is not a official entry point; So Canada should hear their refugee claim.
Source: Radio-Canada
