Trudeau government’s tougher line on asylum seekers a ‘dramatic shift’ in policy, says Amnesty International
Michelle Zilio Parliamentary affairs reporter
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Amnesty International is sounding the alarm over the Trudeau government’s tougher line on asylum seekers, saying Canada risks its global reputation as a welcoming place for refugees and would become another country to close its border to the world’s most vulnerable if it changed its asylum policy.
Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International’s Americas director, is in Ottawa this week meeting with senior government officials, including Border Security Minister Bill Blair, to discuss the surge in asylum seekers at the Canada-U.S. land border and other human-rights issues in the hemisphere. She said the NGO is worried about the Trudeau government’s shift in refugee policy as it looks to stem the flow of asylum seekers between official points of entry.
“It would be very concerning that a country like Canada, particularly … the government of Prime Minister [Justin] Trudeau, makes this kind of dramatic shift into becoming a more restrictive, conservative policy that is denying the rights of people to seek asylum in Canada,†Ms. Guevara-Rosas said in an interview with The Globe and Mail on Monday.
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