Borders: Canada

Canada: The Harvard Law School s immigrant and refugee clinic has just completed a comprehensive examination of refugee treatment in Canada. Its researchers were taken aback by what they found. Canada is systematically closing its borders to asylum seekers and failing in its refugee protection obligations under domestic and international law, they concluded, according to The Star. A succession of immigration and public safety ministers has insisted that Canada cannot afford to be a patsy or a chink in North Americas security armour and Canada craves attention in the United States but not this kind. This will not come as a surprise to Canadians. Since 2006, Stephen Harpers government has been incrementally tightening Canadas borders and turning away increasing numbers of refugee claimants from countries with abysmal human rights records. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the pace accelerated sharply. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.