Request Asylum: Question Period and Ban Travellers

request asylum: Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister has expressed worries that those numbers could rise further as the weather becomes warmer, and has called on Ottawa to provide more help in dealing with the influx, according to The Waterloo Record. For now, Ottawa is monitoring the situation, but it's still too early to say whether even more asylum seekers will continue walking over Canada's doorstep, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said in an interview aired Sunday on CTV's Question Period. In the days and weeks that followed a move by President Donald Trump to ban travellers from seven Muslim-majority entering the U.S., Canada has seen an increase in the number of refugee claimants walking across the border to request asylum. We need to see what happens over the next little while to see if this is a trend, Hussen told CTV's Evan Solomon. Over 20 people were intercepted while crossing the border illegally near Emerson, Man., over the weekend two weeks ago. We can't really determine that this is a trend moving forward. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.