Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Visa Requirement

Immigration Minister John McCallum: But with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau having promised repeatedly to lift the requirement and the so-called "Three Amigos" summit scheduled to take place in Ottawa on June 29, the push is on to find a way, according to Brandon Sun. Options on the table include waiting until more resources in place to better monitor travel, and threatening to reinstate the visa requirement if asylum claims from Mexico cross a certain threshold. It not only a matter of money: on certain indicators used to decide whether to remove visas, Mexico may not qualify, spurring internal debate about how to justify lifting the visa requirement without doing so for other countries. Immigration Minister John McCallum said Thursday that the government is mindful of the risks. "We are all working assiduously to deal with those problems and to mitigate them," he said. The majority were rejected as unfounded. The previous Conservative government imposed visa restrictions on Mexico in 2009, citing a need to curb asylum claims — in 2008, there were more than 9,000, making up nearly a quarter of all claims filed that year. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.